Accepted Paper

Inserted: 20 dec 2011
Last Updated: 29 oct 2012

Journal: Adv. Calc. Var.
Year: 2012

Abstract:

We consider the generalized Willmore functional defined, for smooth functions, as the p-Willmore energy of each isolevel set integrated over all levels. We propose a new framework, that combines varifolds and Young measures, to study the relaxation of this functional in $BV(\Omega)$ with respect to the strong topology of $L^1$, being $\Omega$ an open and bounded Lipschitz domain of $R^n$

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