# Weak continuity and lower semicontinuity results for determinants

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Inserted: 4 sep 2003
Last Updated: 27 jul 2011

Journal: Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.
Volume: 178
Number: 3
Pages: 411-448
Year: 2005

Abstract:

Weak continuity properties of minors and lower semicontinuity properties of functionals with polyconvex integrands are addressed in this paper. In particular, it is shown that if $\{ u_{n}\}$ is bounded in $W^{1,N-1}\left( A;{R}^{N}\right)$, $\left\{adj D u_{n}\right\}$ is in $L^{{N}/{N-1}} \left(A;R^{{N}\times{N}}\right)$, $u$ is in $BV\left( A;{R}^{N}\right)$, $u_{n}$ converges strongly to $u$ in $L^{1}\left( A;{R}^{N}\right)$ and $\det D u_{n}$ converges weakly star in the sense of measures to some measure $m$, then for ${L}^{N}$ a.e. $x$ in $A$ $\det D u\left( x\right) =\left({dm}/{d{L}^{N}}\right)\left( x\right) .$ The result is sharp and counterexamples are provided in the cases where regularity of $\left\{ u_{n}\right\}$ or the type of weak convergence are weakened.