Duality Principles and Numerical Procedures for a Large Class of Non-convex Models in the Calculus of Variations

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Abstract

This article develops duality principles and numerical results for a large class of non-convex variational models. The main results are based on fundamental tools of convex analysis, duality theory and calculus of variations. More specifically the approach is established for a class of non-convex functionals similar as those found in some models in phase transition. Finally, in the last section we present a concerning numerical example and the respective software.

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Subject: Computer Science and Mathematics - Applied Mathematics

1. Introduction

In this section we establish a dual formulation for a large class of models in non-convex optimization.

The main duality principle is applied to double well models similar as those found in the phase transition theory.

Such results are based on the works of J.J. Telega and W.R. Bielski [2,3,14,15] and on a D.C. optimization approach developed in Toland [16].

About the other references, details on the Sobolev spaces involved are found in [1]. Related results on convex analysis and duality theory are addressed in [5,6,7,9,13].

Finally, in this text we adopt the standard Einstein convention of summing up repeated indices, unless otherwise indicated.

In order to clarify the notation, here we introduce the definition of topological dual space.

Definition 1.1

(Topological dual spaces). Let U be a Banach space. We shall define its dual topological space, as the set of all linear continuous functionals defined on U. We suppose such a dual space of U, may be represented by another Banach space

U^{*}

, through a bilinear form

{〈 \cdot, \cdot 〉}_{U} : U \times U^{*} \to R

(here we are referring to standard representations of dual spaces of Sobolev and Lebesgue spaces). Thus, given

f : U \to R

linear and continuous, we assume the existence of a unique

u^{*} \in U^{*}

such that

\begin{matrix} f (u) = {〈 u, u^{*} 〉}_{U}, \forall u \in U . \end{matrix}

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The norm of f , denoted by

{∥ f ∥}_{U^{*}}

, is defined as

\begin{matrix} {∥ f ∥}_{U^{*}} = sup_{u \in U} {| {〈 u, u^{*} 〉}_{U} {| : ∥ u ∥}_{U} \leq 1} \equiv ∥ u^{*} ∥_{U^{*}} . \end{matrix}

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At this point we start to describe the primal and dual variational formulations.

2. A general duality principle non-convex optimization

In this section we present a duality principle applicable to a model in phase transition.

This case corresponds to the vectorial one in the calculus of variations.

Let

Ω \subset R^{n}

be an open, bounded, connected set with a regular (Lipschitzian) boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider a functional

J : V \to R

where

J (u) = F (\nabla u_{1}, \dots, \nabla u_{N}) + G (u_{1}, \dots, u_{N}) - {〈 u_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2}},

and where

V = {u = (u_{1}, \dots, u_{N}) \in W^{1, p} (Ω; R^{N}) : u = u_{0} on \partial Ω},

f \in L^{2} (Ω; R^{N}),

and

1 < p < + \infty .

We assume there exists

α \in R

such that

α = inf_{u \in V} J (u) .

Moreover, suppose F and G are Fréchet differentiable but not necessarily convex. A global optimum point may not be attained for J so that the problem of finding a global minimum for J may not be a solution.

Anyway, one question remains, how the minimizing sequences behave close the infimum of J.

We intend to use duality theory to approximately solve such a global optimization problem.

Denoting

V_{0} = W_{0}^{1, p} (Ω; R^{N})

Y_{1} = Y_{1}^{*} = L^{2} (Ω; R^{N \times n})

Y_{2} = Y_{2}^{*} = L^{2} (Ω; R^{N \times n})

Y_{3} = Y_{3}^{*} = L^{2} (Ω; R^{N}),

at this point we define,

F_{1} : V \times V_{0} \to R

G_{1} : V \to R

G_{2} : V \to R

G_{3} : V_{0} \to R

and

G_{4} : V \to R,

\begin{matrix} F_{1} (\nabla u, \nabla ϕ) & = & F (\nabla u_{1} + \nabla ϕ_{1}, \dots, \nabla u_{N} + \nabla ϕ_{N}) + \frac{K}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u_{j} \cdot \nabla u_{j} d x \\ + \frac{K_{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla ϕ_{j} \cdot \nabla ϕ_{j} d x \end{matrix}

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and

G_{1} (u_{1}, \dots, u_{n}) = G (u_{1}, \dots, u_{N}) + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{j} u_{j} d x - {〈 u_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2}},

G_{2} (\nabla u_{1}, \dots, \nabla u_{N}) = \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u_{j} \cdot \nabla u_{j} d x,

G_{3} (\nabla ϕ_{1}, \dots, \nabla ϕ_{N}) = \frac{K_{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla ϕ_{j} \cdot \nabla ϕ_{j} d x,

and

G_{4} (u_{1}, \dots, u_{N}) = \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{j} u_{j} d x .

Define now

J_{1} : V \times V_{0} \to R

J_{1} (u, ϕ) = F (\nabla u + \nabla ϕ) + G (u) - {〈 u_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2}} .

Observe that

\begin{matrix} J_{1} (u, ϕ) & = & F_{1} (\nabla u, \nabla ϕ) + G_{1} (u) - G_{2} (\nabla u) - G_{3} (\nabla ϕ) - G_{4} (u) \\ \leq & F_{1} (\nabla u, \nabla ϕ) + G_{1} (u) - {〈 \nabla u, z_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 \nabla ϕ, z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 u, z_{3}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + sup_{v_{1} \in Y_{1}} {{〈 v_{1}, z_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - G_{2} (v_{1})} \\ + sup_{v_{2} \in Y_{2}} {{〈 v_{2}, z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - G_{3} (v_{2})} \\ + sup_{u \in V} {{〈 u, z_{3}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - G_{4} (u)} \\ = & F_{1} (\nabla u, \nabla ϕ) + G_{1} (u) - {〈 \nabla u, z_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 \nabla ϕ, z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 u, z_{3}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + G_{2}^{*} (z_{1}^{*}) + G_{3}^{*} (z_{2}^{*}) + G_{4}^{*} (z_{3}^{*}) \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u, ϕ, z^{*}), \end{matrix}

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\forall u \in V, ϕ \in V_{0}, z^{*} = (z_{1}^{*}, z_{2}^{*}, z_{3}^{*}) \in Y^{*} = Y_{1}^{*} \times Y_{2}^{*} \times Y_{3}^{*}

Here we assume

K, K_{1}, K_{2}

are large enough so that

F_{1}

and

G_{1}

are convex.

Hence, from the general results in [16], we may infer that

\begin{matrix} inf_{(u, ϕ) \in V \times V_{0}} J (u, ϕ) & = & inf_{(u, ϕ, z^{*}) \in V \times V_{0} \times Y^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, ϕ, z^{*}) . \end{matrix}

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On the other hand

inf_{u \in V} J (u) \geq inf_{(u, ϕ) \in V \times V_{0}} J_{1} (u, ϕ) \geq inf_{u \in V} Q_{J} (u) = inf_{u \in V} J (u),

where

Q_{J} (u)

refers to a standard quasi-convex regularization of J.

From these last two results we may obtain

inf_{u \in V} J (u) = inf_{(u, ϕ, z^{*}) \in V \times V_{0} \times Y^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, ϕ, z^{*}) .

Moreover, from standards results on convex analysis, we may have

\begin{matrix} inf_{u \in V} J_{1}^{*} (u, ϕ, z^{*}) & = & inf_{u \in V} {F_{1} (\nabla u, \nabla ϕ) + G_{1} (u) \\ - {〈 \nabla u, z_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 \nabla ϕ, z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 u, z_{3}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + G_{2}^{*} (z_{1}^{*}) + G_{3}^{*} (z_{2}^{*}) + G_{4}^{*} (z_{3}^{*})} \\ = & sup_{(v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}) \in C^{*}} {- F_{1}^{*} (v_{1}^{*} + z_{1}^{*}, \nabla ϕ) - G_{1}^{*} (v_{2}^{*} + z_{3}^{*}) - {〈 \nabla ϕ, z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + G_{2}^{*} (z_{1}^{*}) + G_{3}^{*} (z_{2}^{*}) + G_{4}^{*} (z_{3}^{*})}, \end{matrix}

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where

C^{*} = {v^{*} = (v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}) \in Y_{1}^{*} \times Y_{3}^{*} : - div {(v_{1}^{*})}_{i} + {(v_{2}^{*})}_{i} = 0, \forall i \in {1, \dots, N}},

F_{1}^{*} (v_{1}^{*} + z_{1}^{*}, \nabla ϕ) = sup_{v_{1} \in Y_{1}} {{〈 v_{1}, z_{1}^{*} + v_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - F_{1} (v_{1}, \nabla ϕ)},

and

G_{1}^{*} (v_{2}^{*} + z_{2}^{*}) = sup_{u \in V} {{〈 u, v_{2}^{*} + z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - G_{1} (u)} .

Thus, defining

J_{2}^{*} (ϕ, z^{*}, v^{*}) = F_{1}^{*} (v_{1}^{*} + z_{1}^{*}, \nabla ϕ) - G_{1}^{*} (v_{2}^{*} + z_{3}^{*}) - {〈 \nabla ϕ, z_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + G_{2}^{*} (z_{1}^{*}) + G_{3}^{*} (z_{2}^{*}) + G_{4}^{*} (z_{3}^{*}),

we have got

\begin{matrix} inf_{u \in V} J (u) & = & inf_{(u, ϕ) \in V \times V_{0}} J_{1} (u, ϕ) \\ = & inf_{(u, ϕ, z^{*}) \in V \times V_{0} \times Y^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, ϕ, z^{*}) \\ = & inf_{z^{*} \in Y^{*}} \{inf_{ϕ \in V_{0}} \{sup_{v^{*} \in C^{*}} J_{2}^{*} (ϕ, z^{*}, v^{*})\}\} . \end{matrix}

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Finally, observe that

\begin{matrix} inf_{u \in V} J (u) \\ = & inf_{z^{*} \in Y^{*}} \{inf_{ϕ \in V_{0}} \{sup_{v^{*} \in C^{*}} J_{2}^{*} (ϕ, z^{*}, v^{*})\}\} \\ \geq & sup_{v^{*} \in C^{*}} \{inf_{(z^{*}, ϕ) \in Y^{*} \times V_{0}} J_{2}^{*} (ϕ, z^{*}, v^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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This last variational formulation corresponds to a concave relaxed formulation in

v^{*}

concerning the original primal formulation.

3. Another duality principle for a simpler related model in phase transition with a respective numerical example

In this section we present another duality principle for a related model in phase transition.

Let

Ω = [0, 1] \subset R

and consider a functional

J : V \to R

where

J (u) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {({(u^{'})}^{2} - 1)}^{2} d x + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}},

and where

V = {u \in W^{1, 4} (Ω) : u (0) = 0 and u (1) = 1 / 2}

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

A global optimum point is not attained for J so that the problem of finding a global minimum for J has no solution.

Anyway, one question remains, how the minimizing sequences behave close the infimum of J.

We intend to use duality theory to approximately solve such a global optimization problem.

Denoting

V_{0} = W_{0}^{1, 4} (Ω)

, at this point we define,

F : V \to R

and

F_{1} : V \times V_{0} \to R

F (u) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {({(u^{'})}^{2} - 1)}^{2} d x,

and

F_{1} (u, ϕ) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {({(u^{'} + ϕ^{'})}^{2} - 1)}^{2} d x .

Observe

F (u) \geq inf_{ϕ \in V_{0}} F_{1} (u, ϕ) \geq Q_{F} (u), \forall u \in V,

where

Q_{F} (u)

refers to a quasi-convex regularization of

F .

We define also

F_{2} : V \times V_{0} \to R,

F_{3} : V \times V_{0} \to R

and

G : V \times V_{0} \to R

F_{2} (u, ϕ) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {({(u^{'} + ϕ^{'})}^{2} - 1)}^{2} d x + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}},

\begin{matrix} F_{3} (u, ϕ) & = & F_{2} (u, ϕ) + \frac{K}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{'})}^{2} d x \\ + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(ϕ^{'})}^{2} d x \end{matrix}

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and

\begin{matrix} G (u, ϕ) & = & \frac{K}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{'})}^{2} d x \\ + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(ϕ^{'})}^{2} d x \end{matrix}

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Observe that if

K > 0, K_{1} > 0

is large enough, both

F_{3}

and G are convex.

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

we also define the polar functional

G^{*} : Y^{*} \times Y^{*} \to R

G^{*} (v^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) = sup_{(u, ϕ) \in V \times V_{0}} {{〈 u, v^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + {〈 ϕ, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - G (u, ϕ)} .

Observe that

inf_{u \in U} J (u) \geq inf_{((u, ϕ), (v^{*}, v_{0}^{*})) \in V \times V_{0} \times {[Y^{*}]}^{2}} {G^{*} (v^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) - {〈 u, v^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 ϕ, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + F_{3} (u, ϕ)} .

With such results in mind, we define a relaxed primal dual variational formulation for the primal problem, represented by

J_{1}^{*} : V \times V_{0} \times {[Y^{*}]}^{2} \to R

, where

J_{1}^{*} (u, ϕ, v^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) = G^{*} (v^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) - {〈 u, v^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - {〈 ϕ, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + F_{3} (u, ϕ) .

Having defined such a functional, we may obtain numerical results by solving a sequence of convex auxiliary sub-problems, through the following algorithm.

1.: Set $K \approx 150$ and $K_{1} = K / 20$ and $0 < ε ≪ 1 .$
2.: Choose $(u_{1}, ϕ_{1}) \in V \times V_{0},$ such that $∥ u_{1} ∥_{1, \infty} ≪ K / 4$ and $∥ ϕ_{1} ∥_{1, \infty} ≪ K / 4 .$
3.: Set $n = 1 .$
4.: Calculate $(v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})$ solution of the system of equations:

$\frac{\partial J_{1}^{*} (u_{n}, ϕ_{n}, v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})}{\partial v^{*}} = 0$

and

$\frac{\partial J_{1}^{*} (u_{n}, ϕ_{n}, v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})}{\partial v_{0}^{*}} = 0,$

that is

$\frac{\partial G^{*} (v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})}{\partial v^{*}} - u_{n} = 0$

and

$\frac{\partial G^{*} (v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})}{\partial v_{0}^{*}} - ϕ_{n} = 0$

so that

$v_{n}^{*} = \frac{\partial G (u_{n}, ϕ_{n})}{\partial u}$

and

${(v_{0}^{*})}_{n}^{*} = \frac{\partial G (u_{n}, ϕ_{n})}{\partial ϕ}$
5.: Calculate $(u_{n + 1}, ϕ_{n + 1})$ by solving the system of equations:

$\frac{\partial J_{1}^{*} (u_{n + 1}, ϕ_{n + 1}, v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})}{\partial u} = 0$

and

$\frac{\partial J_{1}^{*} (u_{n + 1}, ϕ_{n + 1}, v_{n}^{*}, {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n})}{\partial ϕ} = 0$

that is

$- v_{n}^{*} + \frac{\partial F_{3} (u_{n + 1}, ϕ_{n + 1})}{\partial u} = 0$

and

$- {(v_{0}^{*})}_{n} + \frac{\partial F_{3} (u_{n + 1}, ϕ_{n + 1})}{\partial ϕ} = 0$
6.: If $max {∥ u_{n} - u_{n + 1} ∥_{\infty}, ∥ ϕ_{n + 1} - ϕ_{n} ∥_{\infty}} \leq ε$ , then stop, else set $n : = n + 1$ and go to item 4.

For the case in which

f (x) = 0

, we have obtained numerical results for

K = 1500

and

K_{1} = K / 20

. For such a concerning solution

u_{0}

obtained, please see Figure 1. For the case in which

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2

, we have obtained numerical results for

K = 100

and

K_{1} = K / 20

. For such a concerning solution

u_{0}

obtained, please see Figure 2.

Remark 3.1.

Observe that the solutions obtained are approximate critical points. They are not, in a classical sense, the global solutions for the related optimization problems. Indeed, such solutions reflect the average behavior of weak cluster points for concerning minimizing sequences.

4. A convex dual variational formulation for a third similar model

In this section we present another duality principle for a third related model in phase transition.

Let

Ω = [0, 1] \subset R

and consider a functional

J : V \to R

where

J (u) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} min {{(u^{'} - 1)}^{2}, {(u^{'} + 1)}^{2}} d x + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}},

and where

V = {u \in W^{1, 2} (Ω) : u (0) = 0 and u (1) = 1 / 2}

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

A global optimum point is not attained for J so that the problem of finding a global minimum for J has no solution.

Anyway, one question remains, how the minimizing sequences behave close to the infimum of J.

We intend to use the duality theory to solve such a global optimization problem in an appropriate sense to be specified.

At this point we define,

F : V \to R

and

G : V \to R

\begin{matrix} F (u) & = & \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} min {{(u^{'} - 1)}^{2}, {(u^{'} + 1)}^{2}} d x \\ = & \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{'})}^{2} d x - \int_{Ω} | u^{'} | d x + 1 / 2 \\ \equiv & F_{1} (u^{'}), \end{matrix}

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and

G (u) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

we also define the polar functional

F_{1}^{*} : Y^{*} \to R

and

G^{*} : Y^{*} \to R

\begin{matrix} F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) & = & sup_{v \in Y} {{〈 v, v^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - F_{1} (v)} \\ = & \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {(v^{*})}^{2} d x + \int_{Ω} | v^{*} | d x, \end{matrix}

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and

\begin{matrix} G^{*} ({(v^{*})}^{'}) & = & sup_{u \in V} {- {〈 u^{'}, v^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - G (u)} \\ = & \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {({(v^{*})}^{'} + f)}^{2} d x - \frac{1}{2} v^{*} (1) . \end{matrix}

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Observe this is the scalar case of the calculus of variations, so that from the standard results on convex analysis, we have

inf_{u \in V} J (u) = max_{v^{*} \in Y^{*}} {- F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) - G^{*} (- {(v^{*})}^{'})} .

Indeed, from the direct method of the calculus of variations, the maximum for the dual formulation is attained at some

{\hat{v}}^{*} \in Y^{*}

Moreover, the corresponding solution

u_{0} \in V

is obtained from the equation

u_{0} = \frac{\partial G ({({\hat{v}}^{*})}^{'})}{\partial {(v^{*})}^{'}} = {({\hat{v}}^{*})}^{'} + f .

Finally, the Euler-Lagrange equations for the dual problem stands for

\{\begin{matrix} {(v^{*})}^{''} + f^{'} - v^{*} - sign (v^{*}) = 0, & in Ω, \\ {(v^{*})}^{'} (0) = 0, {(v^{*})}^{'} (1) = 1 / 2, \end{matrix}

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where

sign (v^{*} (x)) = 1

v^{*} (x) > 0,

sign (v^{*} (x)) = - 1,

v^{*} (x) < 0

and

- 1 \leq sign (v^{*} (x)) \leq 1,

v^{*} (x) = 0 .

We have computed the solutions

v^{*}

and corresponding solutions

u_{0} \in V

for the cases in which

f (x) = 0

and

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2 .

For the solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case in which

f (x) = 0

, please see Figure 3.

For the solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case in which

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2

, please see Figure 4.

Remark 4.1.

Observe that such solutions

u_{0}

obtained are not the global solutions for the related primal optimization problems. Indeed, such solutions reflect the average behavior of weak cluster points for concerning minimizing sequences.

4.1. The algorithm through which we have obtained the numerical results

In this subsection we present the software in MATLAB through which we have obtained the last numerical results.

This algorithm is for solving the concerning Euler-Lagrange equations for the dual problem, that is, for solving the equation

\{\begin{matrix} {(v^{*})}^{''} + f^{'} - v^{*} - sign (v^{*}) = 0, & in Ω, \\ {(v^{*})}^{'} (0) = 0, {(v^{*})}^{'} (1) = 1 / 2 . \end{matrix}

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Here the concerning software in MATLAB. We emphasize to have used the smooth approximation

| v^{*} | \approx \sqrt{{(v^{*})}^{2} + e_{1}},

where a small value for

e_{1}

is specified in the next lines.

*************************************

1.: clear all
2.: $m_{8} = 800;$ (number of nodes)
3.: $d = 1 / m_{8};$
4.: $e_{1} = 0.00001;$
5.: $f o r i = 1 : m_{8}$

$y o (i, 1) = 0.01;$

$y_{1} (i, 1) = sin (π * i / m_{8}) / 2;$

$e n d;$
6.: $f o r i = 1 : m_{8} - 1$

$d y_{1} (i, 1) = (y_{1} (i + 1, 1) - y_{1} (i, 1)) / d;$

$e n d;$
7.: $f o r k = 1 : 3000$ (we have fixed the number of iterations)

$i = 1;$

$h_{3} = 1 / \sqrt{v o {(i, 1)}^{2} + e_{1}};$

$m_{12} = 1 + d^{2} * h_{3} + d^{2};$

$m_{50} (i) = 1 / m_{12};$

$z (i) = m_{50} (i) * (d y_{1} (i, 1) * d^{2});$
8.: $f o r i = 2 : m_{8} - 1$

$h_{3} = 1 / \sqrt{v o {(i, 1)}^{2} + e_{1}};$

$m_{12} = 2 + h_{3} * d^{2} + d^{2} - m 50 (i - 1);$

$m 50 (i) = 1 / m_{12};$

$z (i) = m_{50} (i) * (z (i - 1) + d y_{1} (i, 1) * d^{2});$

$e n d;$
9.: $v (m_{8}, 1) = (d / 2 + z (m_{8} - 1)) / (1 - m_{50} (m_{8} - 1));$
10.: $f o r i = 1 : m_{8} - 1$

$v (m_{8} - i, 1) = m_{50} (m_{8} - i) * v (m_{8} - i + 1) + z (m_{8} - i);$

$e n d;$
11.: $v (m_{8} / 2, 1)$
12.: $v o = v;$

$e n d;$
13.: $f o r i = 1 : m_{8} - 1$

$u (i, 1) = (v (i + 1, 1) - v (i, 1)) / d + y_{1} (i, 1);$

$e n d;$
14.: $f o r i = 1 : m_{8} - 1$

$x (i) = i * d;$

$e n d;$

$p l o t (x, u (:, 1))$

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5. An improvement of the convexity conditions for a non-convex related model through an approximate primal formulation

In this section we develop an approximate primal dual formulation suitable for a large class of variational models.

Here, the applications are for the Kirchhoff-Love plate model, which may be found in Ciarlet, [10].

At this point we start to describe the primal variational formulation.

Let

Ω \subset R^{2}

be an open, bounded, connected set which represents the middle surface of a plate of thickness h. The boundary of

Ω

, which is assumed to be regular (Lipschitzian), is denoted by

\partial Ω

. The vectorial basis related to the cartesian system

{x_{1}, x_{2}, x_{3}}

is denoted by

(a_{α}, a_{3})

, where

α = 1, 2

(in general Greek indices stand for 1 or 2), and where

a_{3}

is the vector normal to

Ω

, whereas

a_{1}

and

a_{2}

are orthogonal vectors parallel to

Ω .

Also,

n

is the outward normal to the plate surface.

The displacements will be denoted by

\hat{u} = {{\hat{u}}_{α}, {\hat{u}}_{3}} = {\hat{u}}_{α} a_{α} + {\hat{u}}_{3} a_{3} .

The Kirchhoff-Love relations are

\begin{matrix} {\hat{u}}_{α} (x_{1}, x_{2}, x_{3}) = u_{α} (x_{1}, x_{2}) - x_{3} w {(x_{1}, x_{2})}_{, α} \\ and {\hat{u}}_{3} (x_{1}, x_{2}, x_{3}) = w (x_{1}, x_{2}) . \end{matrix}

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Here

- h / 2 \leq x_{3} \leq h / 2

so that we have

u = (u_{α}, w) \in U

where

\begin{matrix} U & = & \{u = (u_{α}, w) \in W^{1, 2} (Ω; R^{2}) \times W^{2, 2} (Ω), \\ u_{α} = w = \frac{\partial w}{\partial n} = 0 on \partial Ω\} \\ = & W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω; R^{2}) \times W_{0}^{2, 2} (Ω) . \end{matrix}

It is worth emphasizing that the boundary conditions here specified refer to a clamped plate.

We also define the operator

Λ : U \to Y \times Y

, where

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω; R^{2 \times 2})

, by

Λ (u) = {γ (u), κ (u)},

γ_{α β} (u) = \frac{u_{α, β} + u_{β, α}}{2} + \frac{w_{, α} w_{, β}}{2},

κ_{α β} (u) = - w_{, α β} .

The constitutive relations are given by

N_{α β} (u) = H_{α β λ μ} γ_{λ μ} (u),

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M_{α β} (u) = h_{α β λ μ} κ_{λ μ} (u),

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where:

{H_{α β λ μ}}

and

\{h_{α β λ μ} = \frac{h^{2}}{12} H_{α β λ μ}\}

, are symmetric positive definite fourth order tensors. From now on, we denote

{{\bar{H}}_{α β λ μ}} = {H_{α β λ μ}}^{- 1}

and

{{\bar{h}}_{α β λ μ}} = {h_{α β λ μ}}^{- 1}

Furthermore

{N_{α β}}

denote the membrane force tensor and

{M_{α β}}

the moment one. The plate stored energy, represented by

(G \circ Λ) : U \to R

is expressed by

(G \circ Λ) (u) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} N_{α β} (u) γ_{α β} (u) d x + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} M_{α β} (u) κ_{α β} (u) d x

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and the external work, represented by

F : U \to R

, is given by

F (u) = {〈 w, P 〉}_{L^{2}} + {〈 u_{α}, P_{α} 〉}_{L^{2}},

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where

P, P_{1}, P_{2} \in L^{2} (Ω)

are external loads in the directions

a_{3}

a_{1}

and

a_{2}

respectively. The potential energy, denoted by

J : U \to R

is expressed by:

J (u) = (G \circ Λ) (u) - F (u)

Define now

J_{3} : \tilde{U} \to R

J_{3} (u) = J (u) + J_{5} (w) .

where

J_{5} (w) = 10 \int_{Ω} \frac{a^{K b w}}{ln (a) K^{3 / 2}} d x + 10 \int_{Ω} \frac{a^{- K (b w - 1 / 100)}}{ln (a) K^{3 / 2}} d x .

In such a case for

a = 2.71

K = 185

b = P / | P |

Ω

and

\tilde{U} = {{u \in U : ∥ w ∥}_{\infty} \leq 0.01 and P w \geq 0 a . e . in Ω},

we get

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial J_{3} (u)}{\partial w} & = & \frac{\partial J (u)}{\partial w} + \frac{\partial J_{5} (u)}{\partial w} \\ \approx & \frac{\partial J (u)}{\partial w} + O (\pm 3.0), \end{matrix}

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and

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{3} (u)}{\partial w^{2}} & = & \frac{\partial^{2} J (u)}{\partial w^{2}} + \frac{\partial^{2} J_{5} (u)}{\partial w^{2}} \\ \approx & \frac{\partial^{2} J (u)}{\partial w^{2}} + O (850) . \end{matrix}

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This new functional

J_{3}

has a relevant improvement in the convexity conditions concerning the previous functional J.

Indeed, we have obtained a gain in positiveness for the second variation

\frac{\partial^{2} J (u)}{\partial w^{2}},

which has increased of order

O (700 - 1000) .

Moreover the difference between the approximate and exact equation

\frac{\partial J (u)}{\partial w} = 0

is of order

O (\pm 3.0)

which corresponds to a small perturbation in the original equation for a load of

P = 1500 N / m^{2},

for example. Summarizing, the exact equation may be approximately solved in an appropriate sense.

6. An approximate convex variational formulation for another related model

In this section, we obtain an approximate convex variational formulation for a related model, more specifically, for a Ginzburg-Landau type equation.

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular (Lipschitzian) boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider a functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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where

γ > 0

α > 0

β > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

We define

A^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq 1},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap A^{+} .

At this point we define

v = u / 10

so that

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & J_{1} (v) \\ = & \frac{10^{2} γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla v \cdot \nabla v d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} ({(10 v)}^{2} - β) d x \\ - {〈 10 v, f 〉}_{L^{2}} . \end{matrix}

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Moreover we define

\begin{matrix} J_{2} (v) & = & \frac{1}{10} J_{1} (v) \\ = & \frac{10 γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla v \cdot \nabla v d x + \frac{α}{20} \int_{Ω} ({(10 v)}^{2} - β) d x \\ - {〈 v, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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and

J_{3} : U_{3} \to R

where

J_{3} (v) = J_{2} (v) + J_{5} (v)

where

J_{5} (v) = K_{1} (\int_{Ω} \frac{a^{K^{3} (5 b w)}}{ln (a) K^{4}} d x + \int_{Ω} \frac{a^{- K^{3} (5 b w - 0.5)}}{ln (a) K^{4}} d x) .

Here

K_{1} = 1 / 360

a = 2.71

K = 2

b = f / | f |

Ω

and

U_{2} = {v \in V : f v \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

U_{4} = {{v \in V : ∥ v ∥}_{\infty} \leq 1 / 10},

and

U_{3} = U_{2} \cap U_{4} .

Thus, with such numerical values, we may obtain

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial J_{3} (v)}{\partial v} & = & \frac{\partial J_{2} (v)}{\partial v} + \frac{\partial J_{5} (v)}{\partial v} \\ \approx & \frac{\partial J_{2} (v)}{\partial v} + O (\pm 0.3), \end{matrix}

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and

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{3} (v)}{\partial v^{2}} & = & \frac{\partial^{2} J_{2} (v)}{\partial v^{2}} + \frac{\partial^{2} J_{5} (v)}{\partial v^{2}} \\ \approx & \frac{\partial^{2} J_{2} (v)}{\partial v^{2}} + O (7.0) . \end{matrix}

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Remark 6.1.

This new functional

J_{1}

has a relevant improvement in the convexity conditions concerning the previous functional J.

Indeed, we have obtained a gain in positiveness for the second variation

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{2} (v)}{\partial v^{2}},

which has increased of order

O (5 - 14) .

Moreover the difference between the approximate and exact equation

\frac{\partial J_{2} (v)}{\partial v} = 0

is of order

O (\pm 0.3)

which for appropriate parameters

γ > 0, α > 0

and

β > 0

, corresponds to a small perturbation in the original equation. Summarizing, the exact equation may be approximately solved in an appropriate sense.

Finally, for this last example, we highlight it is relatively easy to improve even more both such an approximation quality and the convexity conditions concerning the original variational model.

With such statements and results in mind, we may prove the following theorem.

Theorem 6.2.

Suppose

γ > 0,

α > 0

and

β > 0

are such that

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{3} (v)}{\partial v^{2}} > 0,

U_{3}

Assume also,

v_{0} \in U_{3}

is such that

δ J_{3} (v_{0}) = 0 .

Under such hypotheses,

J_{3}

is convex on

U_{3}

so that

J_{3} (v_{0}) = min_{v \in U_{3}} J_{3} (v) .

Moreover,

δ J (u_{0}) = 0 + O (\pm 0.3),

where

u_{0} = 10 v_{0} \in V_{1}

Proof.

From the hypotheses

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{3} (v)}{\partial v^{2}} > 0

U_{3}

, so that

J_{3}

is convex on the convex set

U_{3} .

Consequently, since

δ J_{3} (v_{0}) = 0

, we obtain

J_{3} (v_{0}) = min_{v \in U_{3}} J_{3} (v) .

Finally, from the approximation indicated in the last remark and

u_{0} \in V_{1}

we get

δ J (u_{0}) = 0 + O (\pm 0.3) .

The proof is complete.

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7. An exact convex dual variational formulation for a non-convex primal one

In this section we develop a convex dual variational formulation suitable to compute a critical point for the corresponding primal one.

Let

Ω \subset R^{2}

be an open, bounded, connected set with a regular (Lipschitzian) boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider a functional

J : V \to R

where

J (u) = F (u_{x}, u_{y}) - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}},

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Here we denote

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

and

Y_{1} = Y_{1}^{*} = L^{2} (Ω) \times L^{2} (Ω) .

Defining

V_{1} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{1, \infty} \leq K_{1}}

for some appropriate

K_{1} > 0

, suppose also F is twice Fréchet differentiable and

det \{\frac{\partial^{2} F (u_{x}, u_{y})}{\partial v_{1} \partial v_{2}}\} \neq 0,

\forall u \in V_{1} .

Define now

F_{1} : V \to R

and

F_{2} : V \to R

F_{1} (u_{x}, u_{y}) = F (u_{x}, u_{y}) + \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{x}^{2} d x + \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{y}^{2} d x,

and

F_{2} (u_{x}, u_{y}) = \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{x}^{2} d x + \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{y}^{2} d x,

where here we denote

d x = d x_{1} d x_{2} .

Moreover, we define the respective Legendre transform functionals

F_{1}^{*}

and

F_{2}^{*}

F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) = {〈 v_{1}, v_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + {〈 v_{2}, v_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - F_{1} (v_{1}, v_{2}),

where

v_{1}, v_{2} \in Y

are such that

v_{1}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{1} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{1}},

v_{2}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{1} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{2}},

and

F_{2}^{*} (v^{*}) = {〈 v_{1}, v_{1}^{*} + f_{1} 〉}_{L^{2}} + {〈 v_{2}, v_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - F_{2} (v_{1}, v_{2}),

where

v_{1}, v_{2} \in Y

are such that

v_{1}^{*} + f_{1} = \frac{\partial F_{2} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{1}},

v_{2}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{2} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{2}} .

Here

f_{1}

is any function such that

{(f_{1})}_{x} = f, in Ω .

Furthermore, we define

\begin{matrix} J^{*} (v^{*}) & = & - F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) + F_{2}^{*} (v^{*}) \\ = & - F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}^{2} d x + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{2}^{*})}^{2} d x . \end{matrix}

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Observe that through the target conditions

v_{1}^{*} + f_{1} = ε u_{x},

v_{2}^{*} = ε u_{y},

we may obtain the compatibility condition

{(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} = 0 .

Define now

A^{*} = {v^{*} = (v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}) \in B_{r} (0, 0) \subset Y_{1}^{*} : {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} = 0, in Ω},

for some appropriate

r > 0

such that

J^{*}

is convex in

B_{r} (0, 0) .

Consider the problem of minimizing

J^{*}

subject to

v^{*} \in A^{*} .

Assuming

r > 0

is large enough so that the restriction in r is not active, at this point we define the associated Lagrangian

J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}, φ) = J^{*} (v^{*}) + {〈 φ, {(v_{1}^{*} + f)}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} 〉}_{L^{2}},

where

φ

is an appropriate Lagrange multiplier.

Therefore

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) & = & - F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}^{2} d x + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{2}^{*})}^{2} d x \\ + {〈 φ, {(v_{1}^{*} + f)}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} 〉}_{L^{2}} . \end{matrix}

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The optimal point in question will be a solution of the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations for

J_{1}^{*} .

From the variation of

J_{1}^{*}

v_{1}^{*}

we obtain

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{1}^{*}} + \frac{v_{1}^{*} + f}{ε} - \frac{\partial φ}{\partial y} = 0 .

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From the variation of

J_{1}^{*}

v_{2}^{*}

we obtain

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{2}^{*}} + \frac{v_{2}^{*}}{ε} + \frac{\partial φ}{\partial x} = 0 .

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From the variation of

J_{1}^{*}

φ

we have

{(v_{1}^{*} + f)}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} = 0 .

From this last equation, we may obtain

u \in V

such that

v_{1}^{*} + f = ε u_{x},

and

v_{2}^{*} = ε u_{y} .

From this and the previous extremal equations indicated we have

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{1}^{*}} + u_{x} - \frac{\partial φ}{\partial y} = 0,

and

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{2}^{*}} + u_{y} + \frac{\partial φ}{\partial x} = 0 .

so that

v_{1}^{*} + f = \frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{1}},

and

v_{2}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{2}} .

From this and equation (36) and (37) we have

\begin{matrix} - ε {(\frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{1}^{*}})}_{x} - ε {(\frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{2}^{*}})}_{y} \\ + {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}_{x} + {(v_{2}^{*})}_{y} \\ = & - ε u_{x x} - ε u_{y y} + {(v_{1}^{*})}_{x} + {(v_{2}^{*})}_{y} + f = 0 . \end{matrix}

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Replacing the expressions of

v_{1}^{*}

and

v_{2}^{*}

into this last equation, we have

- ε u_{x x} - ε u_{y y} + {(\frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{1}})}_{x} + {(\frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{2}})}_{y} + f = 0,

so that

{(\frac{\partial F (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{1}})}_{x} + {(\frac{\partial F (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{2}})}_{y} + f = 0, in Ω .

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Observe that if

\nabla^{2} φ = 0

then there exists

\hat{u}

such that u and

φ

are also such that

u_{x} - φ_{y} = {\hat{u}}_{x}

and

u_{y} + φ_{x} = {\hat{u}}_{y} .

The boundary conditions for

φ

must be such that

\hat{u} \in W_{0}^{1, 2} .

From this and equation (39) we obtain

δ J (\hat{u}) = 0 .

Summarizing, we may obtain a solution

\hat{u} \in W_{0}^{1, 2}

of equation

δ J (\hat{u}) = 0

by minimizing

J^{*}

A^{*}

Finally, observe that clearly

J^{*}

is convex in an appropriate large ball

B_{r} (0, 0)

for some appropriate

r > 0

8. An exact convex dual variational formulation for a non-convex primal one

In this section we develop a convex dual variational formulation suitable to compute a critical point for the corresponding primal one.

Let

Ω \subset R^{2}

be an open, bounded, connected set with a regular (Lipschitzian) boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider a functional

J : V \to R

where

J (u) = F (u_{x}, u_{y}) - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}},

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Here we denote

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

and

Y_{1} = Y_{1}^{*} = L^{2} (Ω) \times L^{2} (Ω) .

Defining

V_{1} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{1, \infty} \leq K_{1}}

for some appropriate

K_{1} > 0

, suppose also F is twice Fréchet differentiable and

det \{\frac{\partial^{2} F (u_{x}, u_{y})}{\partial v_{1} \partial v_{2}}\} \neq 0,

\forall u \in V_{1} .

Define now

F_{1} : V \to R

and

F_{2} : V \to R

F_{1} (u_{x}, u_{y}) = F (u_{x}, u_{y}) + \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{x}^{2} d x + \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{y}^{2} d x,

and

F_{2} (u_{x}, u_{y}) = \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{x}^{2} d x + \frac{ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u_{y}^{2} d x,

where here we denote

d x = d x_{1} d x_{2} .

Moreover, we define the respective Legendre transform functionals

F_{1}^{*}

and

F_{2}^{*}

F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) = {〈 v_{1}, v_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + {〈 v_{2}, v_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - F_{1} (v_{1}, v_{2}),

where

v_{1}, v_{2} \in Y

are such that

v_{1}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{1} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{1}},

v_{2}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{1} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{2}},

and

F_{2}^{*} (v^{*}) = {〈 v_{1}, v_{1}^{*} + f_{1} 〉}_{L^{2}} + {〈 v_{2}, v_{2}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - F_{2} (v_{1}, v_{2}),

where

v_{1}, v_{2} \in Y

are such that

v_{1}^{*} + f_{1} = \frac{\partial F_{2} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{1}},

v_{2}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{2} (v_{1}, v_{2})}{\partial v_{2}} .

Here

f_{1}

is any function such that

{(f_{1})}_{x} = f, in Ω .

Furthermore, we define

\begin{matrix} J^{*} (v^{*}) & = & - F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) + F_{2}^{*} (v^{*}) \\ = & - F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}^{2} d x + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{2}^{*})}^{2} d x . \end{matrix}

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Observe that through the target conditions

v_{1}^{*} + f_{1} = ε u_{x},

v_{2}^{*} = ε u_{y},

we may obtain the compatibility condition

{(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} = 0 .

Define now

A^{*} = {v^{*} = (v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}) \in B_{r} (0, 0) \subset Y_{1}^{*} : {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} = 0, in Ω},

for some appropriate

r > 0

such that

J^{*}

is convex in

B_{r} (0, 0) .

Consider the problem of minimizing

J^{*}

subject to

v^{*} \in A^{*} .

Assuming

r > 0

is large enough so that the restriction in r is not active, at this point we define the associated Lagrangian

J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}, φ) = J^{*} (v^{*}) + {〈 φ, {(v_{1}^{*} + f)}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} 〉}_{L^{2}},

where

φ

is an appropriate Lagrange multiplier.

Therefore

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) & = & - F_{1}^{*} (v^{*}) + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}^{2} d x + \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{2}^{*})}^{2} d x \\ + {〈 φ, {(v_{1}^{*} + f)}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} 〉}_{L^{2}} . \end{matrix}

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The optimal point in question will be a solution of the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations for

J_{1}^{*} .

From the variation of

J_{1}^{*}

v_{1}^{*}

we obtain

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{1}^{*}} + \frac{v_{1}^{*} + f}{ε} - \frac{\partial φ}{\partial y} = 0 .

(36)

From the variation of

J_{1}^{*}

v_{2}^{*}

we obtain

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{2}^{*}} + \frac{v_{2}^{*}}{ε} + \frac{\partial φ}{\partial x} = 0 .

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From the variation of

J_{1}^{*}

φ

we have

{(v_{1}^{*} + f)}_{y} - {(v_{2}^{*})}_{x} = 0 .

From this last equation, we may obtain

u \in V

such that

v_{1}^{*} + f = ε u_{x},

and

v_{2}^{*} = ε u_{y} .

From this and the previous extremal equations indicated we have

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{1}^{*}} + u_{x} - \frac{\partial φ}{\partial y} = 0,

and

- \frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{2}^{*}} + u_{y} + \frac{\partial φ}{\partial x} = 0 .

so that

v_{1}^{*} + f = \frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{1}},

and

v_{2}^{*} = \frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{2}} .

From this and equation (36) and (37) we have

\begin{matrix} - ε {(\frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{1}^{*}})}_{x} - ε {(\frac{\partial F_{1}^{*} (v^{*})}{\partial v_{2}^{*}})}_{y} \\ + {(v_{1}^{*} + f_{1})}_{x} + {(v_{2}^{*})}_{y} \\ = & - ε u_{x x} - ε u_{y y} + {(v_{1}^{*})}_{x} + {(v_{2}^{*})}_{y} + f = 0 . \end{matrix}

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Replacing the expressions of

v_{1}^{*}

and

v_{2}^{*}

into this last equation, we have

- ε u_{x x} - ε u_{y y} + {(\frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{1}})}_{x} + {(\frac{\partial F_{1} (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{2}})}_{y} + f = 0,

so that

{(\frac{\partial F (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{1}})}_{x} + {(\frac{\partial F (u_{x} - φ_{y}, u_{y} + φ_{x})}{\partial v_{2}})}_{y} + f = 0, in Ω .

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Observe that if

\nabla^{2} φ = 0

then there exists

\hat{u}

such that u and

φ

are also such that

u_{x} - φ_{y} = {\hat{u}}_{x}

and

u_{y} + φ_{x} = {\hat{u}}_{y} .

The boundary conditions for

φ

must be such that

\hat{u} \in W_{0}^{1, 2} .

From this and equation (39) we obtain

δ J (\hat{u}) = 0 .

Summarizing, we may obtain a solution

\hat{u} \in W_{0}^{1, 2}

of equation

δ J (\hat{u}) = 0

by minimizing

J^{*}

A^{*}

Finally, observe that clearly

J^{*}

is convex in an appropriate large ball

B_{r} (0, 0)

for some appropriate

r > 0

9. Another primal dual formulation for a related model

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider the functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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α > 0, β > 0, γ > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

, define now

J_{1}^{*} : V \times Y^{*} \to R

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}) & = & - \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x - {〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u - f)}^{2} d x + {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x + β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x, \end{matrix}

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Define also

A^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq K_{3}},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap A^{+}

for some appropriate

K_{3} > 0

to be specified.

Moreover define

B^{*} = {v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{0}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K}

for some appropriate

K > 0

to be specified.

Observe that, denoting

φ = - γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u - f

we have

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2}} = \frac{1}{α} + 4 K_{1} u^{2}

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} = γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} {(- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*})}^{2}

and

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{0}^{*}} = K_{1} (2 φ + 2 (- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u)) - 2 u

so that

\begin{matrix} det {δ^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})} \\ = & \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2}} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} - {(\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{0}^{*}})}^{2} \\ = & \frac{K_{1} {(- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*})}^{2}}{α} - \frac{γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} + 4 α u^{2}}{α} \\ - 4 K_{1}^{2} φ^{2} - 8 K_{1} φ (- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*}) u + 8 K_{1} φ u \\ + 4 K_{1} (- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u) u . \end{matrix}

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Observe now that a critical point

φ = 0

and

(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u) u = f u \geq 0

Ω

Therefore, for an appropriate large

K_{1} > 0

, also at a critical point, we have

\begin{matrix} det {δ^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})} \\ = & 4 K_{1} f u - \frac{δ^{2} J (u)}{α} + K_{1} \frac{{(- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*})}^{2}}{α} > 0 . \end{matrix}

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Remark 9.1.

From this last equation we may observe that

J_{1}^{*}

has a large region of convexity about any critical point

(u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

, that is, there exists a large

r > 0

such that

J_{1}^{*}

is convex on

B_{r} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) .

With such results in mind, we may easily prove the following theorem.

Theorem 9.2.

Assume

K_{1} ≫ max {1, K, K_{3}}

and suppose

(u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times B^{*}

is such that

δ J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = 0 .

Under such hypotheses, there exists

r > 0

such that

J_{1}^{*}

is convex in

E^{*} = B_{r} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \cap (V_{1} \times B^{*})

δ J (u_{0}) = 0,

and

- J (u_{0}) = J_{1} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = inf_{(u, v_{0}^{*}) \in E^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}) .

10. A third primal dual formulation for a related model

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider the functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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α > 0, β > 0, γ > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

, define now

J_{1}^{*} : V \times Y^{*} \times Y^{*} \to R

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}, v_{1}^{*}) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} K u^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, v_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} \frac{{(v_{1}^{*})}^{2}}{(- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K)} d x \\ + \frac{1}{2 (α + ε)} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β))}^{2} d x + {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x, \end{matrix}

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where

ε > 0

is a small real constant.

Define also

A^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq K_{3}},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap A^{+}

for some appropriate

K_{3} > 0

to be specified.

Moreover define

B^{*} = {v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{0}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{4}}

and

D^{*} = {v_{1}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{1}^{*} ∥ \leq K_{5}},

for some appropriate real constants

K_{4}, K_{5} > 0

to be specified.

Remark 10.1.

Define now

H_{1} (u, v_{0}^{*}) = - γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} + 4 α u^{2}

and

{\hat{E}}_{v_{0}^{*}} = {u \in V : H_{1} (u, v_{0}^{*}) \geq 0} .

For a fixed

v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}

, we are going to prove that

C^{*} = {\hat{E}}_{v_{0}^{*}} \cap V_{1}

is a convex set.

Assume, for a finite dimensional problem version, in a finite differences or finite element context, that

- γ \nabla^{2} - 2 α β \leq 0,

so that for

K_{1} > 0

be sufficiently large, we have

- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} - K_{1} u^{2} \leq 0 .

Observe now that

H_{1} (u, v_{0}^{*}) = - γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} - K_{1} u^{2} + 4 α u^{2} + K_{1} u^{2} .

Let

u_{1}, u_{2} \in C^{*}

and

λ \in [0, 1] .

Thus

sign (u_{1}) = sign (u_{2}) in Ω

so that

λ | u_{1} | + (1 - λ) | u_{2} | = | λ u_{1} + (1 - λ) u_{2} | in Ω .

Observe now that

H_{1} (u_{1}, v_{0}^{*}) \geq 0

and

H_{1} (u_{2}, v_{0}^{*}) \geq 0

so that

4 α u_{1}^{2} + K_{1} u_{1}^{2} \geq γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} u_{1}^{2} \geq 0,

and

4 α u_{2}^{2} + K_{1} u_{1}^{2} \geq γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} u_{2}^{2} \geq 0,

so that

\sqrt{4 α + K_{1}} | u_{1} | \geq \sqrt{γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} u_{1}^{2}}

and

\sqrt{4 α + K_{1}} | u_{2} | \geq \sqrt{γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} u_{2}^{2}} .

From such results we obtain

\begin{matrix} \sqrt{4 α + K_{1}} | λ u_{1} + (1 - λ) u_{2} | & = & \sqrt{4 α + K_{1}} (λ | u_{1} | + (1 - λ | u_{2} |) \\ \geq & λ \sqrt{γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} u_{1}^{2}} + (1 - λ) \sqrt{γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} u_{2}^{2}} \\ \geq & \sqrt{γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} {(λ u_{1} + (1 - λ) u_{2})}^{2}} . \end{matrix}

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From this we obtain

(4 α + K_{1}) {(λ u_{1} + (1 - λ) u_{2})}^{2} \geq γ \nabla^{2} - 2 v_{0}^{*} + K_{1} {(λ u_{1} + (1 - λ) u_{2})}^{2},

so that

H_{1} (λ u_{1} + (1 - λ) u_{2}, v_{0}^{*}) \geq 0 .

Hence

{\hat{E}}_{v_{0}^{*}}

is convex. Since

V_{1}

is also clearly convex, we have obtained that

C^{*} = {\hat{E}}_{v_{0}^{*}} \cap V_{1}

is convex.

Such a result we will be used many times in the next sections.

Observe that, defining

φ = v_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β)

we may obtain

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}, v_{1}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} = - γ \nabla^{2} + K + \frac{α}{α + ε} 4 u^{2} - 2 φ \frac{α}{α + ε}

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}, v_{1}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{1}^{*})}^{2}} = \frac{1}{- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K}

and

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}, v_{1}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{1}^{*}} = - 1

so that

\begin{matrix} det \{\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}, v_{1}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{1}^{*}}\} \\ = & \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{1}^{*})}^{2}} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} - {(\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{1}^{*}})}^{2} \\ = & \frac{- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} + 4 \frac{α^{2}}{α + ε} u^{2} - 2 \frac{α}{α + ε} φ}{- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K} \\ \equiv & H (u, v_{0}^{*}) . \end{matrix}

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However, at a critical point, we have

φ = 0

so that, we define

C_{v_{0}^{*}}^{*} = {u \in V : φ \leq 0} .

From such results, assuming

K ≫ max {K_{3}, K_{4}, K_{5}},

define now

E_{v_{0}^{*}} = {u \in V : H (u, v_{0}^{*}) > 0} .

Observe that similarly as it was develop in remark 10.1, we may prove that

E_{v_{0}^{*}}

is a convex set.

With such results in mind, we may easily prove the following theorem.

Theorem 10.2.

Suppose

(u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \in E^{*} = (V_{1} \cap C_{{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}} \cap E_{{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}}) \times D^{*} \times B^{*}

is such that

δ J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}) = 0 .

Under such hypotheses, we have that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} J (u) \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Proof.

The proof that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

J (u_{0}) = J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

may be easily made similarly as in the previous sections.

Moreover, from the hypotheses, we have

J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

and

J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) .

From this, from a standard saddle point theorem and the remaining hypotheses, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Moreover, observe that

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) & = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ \leq & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{K}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x \\ + {〈 u^{2}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} - \frac{K}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} d x \\ + \frac{1}{2 (α + ε)} \int_{Ω} {({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β))}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ \leq & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*}} \{\frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + 〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉 \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x \\ + \frac{1}{2 (α + ε)} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β))}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}\} \\ = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \forall u \in V_{1} . \end{matrix}

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Summarizing, we have got

J (u_{0}) = J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \leq inf_{u \in V_{1}} J (u) .

From such results, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} J (u) \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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The proof is complete. □

11. A fourth primal dual formulation for a related model

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider the functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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α > 0, β > 0, γ > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

, define now

J_{1}^{*} : V \times Y^{*} \to R

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x - {〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{1}{2 (α + ε)} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β))}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x, \end{matrix}

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where

ε > 0

is a small real constant.

Define also

A^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq K_{3}},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap A^{+}

for some appropriate real constant

K_{3} > 0

Moreover define

B^{*} = {v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{0}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{4}}

for some appropriate real constant

K_{4} > 0

Observe that, denoting

φ = v_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β)

, we may obtain

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} & = & - γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0} \\ + \frac{α^{2}}{α + ε} 4 u^{2} - 2 \frac{φ}{α + ε} α \\ \equiv & H (u, v_{0}^{*}), \end{matrix}

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and

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2}} = - \frac{1}{α} + \frac{1}{α + ε} < 0

However, at a critical point, we have

φ = 0

so that, we define

C_{v_{0}^{*}}^{*} = {u \in V : φ \leq 0} .

Define also,

E_{v_{0}^{*}} = {u \in V : H (u, v_{0}^{*}) > 0} .

Remark 11.1.

Similarly as it was developed in remark 10.1 we may prove that such a

E_{v_{0}^{*}}

is a convex set.

With such results in mind, we may easily prove the following theorem.

Theorem 11.2.

Suppose

(u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \in E^{*} = (V_{1} \cap C_{{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}} \cap E_{{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}}) \times B^{*}

is such that

δ J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = 0 .

Under such hypotheses, we have that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} J (u) \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Proof.

The proof that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

J (u_{0}) = J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

may be easily made similarly as in the previous sections.

Moreover, from the hypotheses, we have

J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{1}^{*} (u, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

and

J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, v_{0}^{*}) .

From this, from a standard saddle point theorem and the remaining hypotheses, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Moreover, observe that

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{1}^{*} (u, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ \leq & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + {〈 u^{2}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} d x \\ + \frac{1}{2 (α + ε)} \int_{Ω} {({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β))}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ \leq & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*}} \{\frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + 〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉 \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x \\ + \frac{1}{2 (α + ε)} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} - α (u^{2} - β))}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}\} \\ = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \forall u \in V_{1} . \end{matrix}

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Summarizing, we have got

J (u_{0}) = J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \leq inf_{u \in V_{1}} J (u) .

From such results, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} J (u) \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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The proof is complete. □

12. One more primal dual formulation for a related model

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider the functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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α > 0, β > 0, γ > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

, define now

J_{1}^{*} : V \times Y^{*} \times Y^{*} \to R

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{K}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{2} d x - {〈 u, v_{1}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} \frac{{(v_{1}^{*})}^{2}}{- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{v_{1}^{*} + f}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K} - \frac{v_{1}^{*}}{- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K})}^{2} d x \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x, \end{matrix}

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Define also

A^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq K_{3}},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap A^{+}

specifically for a constant

K_{3} = \sqrt{\frac{1}{5 α}}

Moreover define

B^{*} = {v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{0}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{4}}

and

D^{*} = {v_{1}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{1}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{5}}

for some appropriate real constants

K_{4} > 0

and

K_{5} > 0

Observe that

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} = - γ \nabla^{2} + K,

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{1}^{*})}^{2}} = \frac{1}{- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K} + \frac{K^{2} {(- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*})}^{2}}{{[(- γ \nabla^{2} + K) (- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K)]}^{2}},

\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{1}^{*}} = - 1,

so that

\begin{matrix} det (\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{1}^{*}}) & = & \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{1}^{*})}^{2}} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} - {(\frac{\partial^{2} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u \partial v_{1}^{*}})}^{2} \\ = & O (\frac{K^{2} (2 (- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*}) + 2 {(- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*})}^{2})}{(- γ \nabla^{2} + K) {(- 2 v_{0}^{*} + K)}^{2}}) \\ \equiv & H (v_{0}^{*}) . \end{matrix}

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With such results in mind, we may easily prove the following theorem.

Theorem 12.1.

Assume

K ≫ max {K_{3}, K_{4}, K_{5}, 1}

and suppose

(u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*} \times B^{*}

is such that

δ J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = 0 .

Suppose also

H ({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) > 0 .

Under such hypotheses, we have that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{J (u) + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x\} \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u,, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Proof.

The proof that

δ J (u_{0}) = - γ \nabla^{2} u_{0} + 2 α (u^{2} - β) u_{0} - f = 0,

{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} = α (u_{0}^{2} - β)

and

J (u_{0}) = J (u_{0}) + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u_{0} + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u_{0} - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x = J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

may be easily made similarly as in the previous sections.

Moreover, from the hypotheses, we have

J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

and

J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*}) .

From this, from a standard saddle point theorem and the remaining hypotheses, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Moreover, observe that

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) & = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ \leq & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + {〈 u^{2}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x \\ \leq & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*}} \{\frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + 〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉 \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x\} \\ = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x, \forall u \in V_{1} . \end{matrix}

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From this we have got

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) & \leq & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x, \forall u \in V_{1} . \end{matrix}

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Therefore, from such results we may obtain

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{J (u) + \frac{K^{2}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(\frac{(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u - f)}{- γ \nabla^{2} + K})}^{2} d x\} \\ = & J_{1}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{1}^{*}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u,, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{(u, v_{1}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times D^{*}} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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The proof is complete. □

13. Another primal dual formulation for a related model

In this section we present another primal dual formulation.

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider the functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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α > 0, β > 0, γ > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

, define now

J_{1}^{*} : V \times Y^{*} \to R

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + {〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{α - ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{4} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ - \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} + α β)}^{2} d x, \end{matrix}

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and

J_{2}^{*} : V \times Y^{*} \to R,

\begin{matrix} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*}) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + {〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u - 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x \\ + \frac{α - ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{4} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ - \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} + α β)}^{2} d x, \end{matrix}

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Define also

A^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq K_{3}},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap A^{+} .

Moreover define

B^{*} = {v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{0}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{4}}

for some appropriate constants

K_{3} > 0

and

K_{4} > 0

Observe that, for

K_{1} = 1 / \sqrt{ε},

we have

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} & = & (- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} + 6 (α - ε) u^{2}) + K_{1} {(- γ \nabla^{2} + 2 v_{0}^{*} + 6 (α - ε) u^{2})}^{2} \\ + K_{1} (- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f) 12 (α - ε) u d x, \end{matrix}

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\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial^{2} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2}} & = & K_{1} 4 u^{2} - \frac{1}{ε} \\ < & 0, \forall u \in V_{1}, v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*} . \end{matrix}

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Define now

A_{2} (u, v_{0}^{*}) = (- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 v_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f) 12 (α - ε) u,

C^{*} = {(u, v_{0}^{*}) \in V \times B^{*} : {∥ A_{2} (u, v_{0}^{*}) ∥}_{\infty} \leq ε_{1}

for a small real parameter

ε_{1} > 0 .

Finally, define

E_{v_{0}^{*}} = \{u \in V : \frac{\partial^{2} A_{2} (u, v_{0}^{*})}{\partial u^{2}} > 0\} .

Remark 13.1.

Similarly as it was developed in remark 10.1 we may prove that such a

E_{v_{0}^{*}}

is a convex set.

Thus,

E_{v_{0}^{*}} \cap V_{1}

is a convex set,

\forall v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}

(for the proof of a similar result please see Theorem 8.7.1 at pages 297, 298 and 299 in [5]).)

With such results in mind, we may easily prove the following theorem.

Theorem 13.2.

Assume

K_{1} ≫ 1 ≫ ε_{1}

and suppose

(u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \in V_{1} \times B^{*}

is such that

δ J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = 0

and

u_{0} \in E_{{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}} .

Under such hypotheses, we have that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{J (u) + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x\} \\ = & J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Proof.

The proof that

δ J (u_{0}) = - γ \nabla^{2} u_{0} + 2 α (u^{2} - β) u_{0} - f = 0,

and

J (u_{0}) = J (u_{0}) + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u_{0} + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u_{0} + 2 (α - ε) u_{0}^{3} - f)}^{2} d x = J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

may be easily made similarly as in the previous sections.

Moreover, from the hypotheses and from the above lines, since

J_{2}^{*}

is concave in

v_{0}^{*}

V_{1} \times B^{*}

and

u_{0} \in E_{{\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}},

we have that

J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{2}^{*} (u, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*})

and

J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) = sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, v_{0}^{*}) .

From this, from the standard Saddle Point Theorem and the remaining hypotheses, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{1}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})\} \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Moreover, observe that

\begin{matrix} J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{2}^{*} (u, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ \leq & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + {〈 u^{2}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + \frac{α - ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{4} d x \\ - \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {({\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} + α β)}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x \\ \leq & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*}} \{\frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + {〈 u^{2}, v_{0}^{*} 〉}_{L^{2}} + \frac{α - ε}{2} \int_{Ω} u^{4} d x \\ - \frac{1}{2 ε} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*} + α β)}^{2} d x - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}} \\ + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x\} \\ = & J (u) + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x, \forall u \in V_{1} . \end{matrix}

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From this we have got

\begin{matrix} J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) & \leq & J (u) + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x, \forall u \in V_{1} . \end{matrix}

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Therefore, from such results we may obtain

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & inf_{u \in V_{1}} \{J (u) + \frac{K_{1}}{2} \int_{Ω} {(- γ \nabla^{2} u + 2 {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*} u + 2 (α - ε) u^{3} - f)}^{2} d x\} \\ = & J_{2}^{*} (u_{0}, {\hat{v}}_{0}^{*}) \\ = & sup_{v_{0}^{*} \in B^{*}} \{inf_{u \in V_{1}} J_{2}^{*} (u, v_{0}^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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The proof is complete. □

14. A convex (in fact concave) dual formulation for a related model

In this section we present a convex dual formulation for the model in question.

Let

Ω \subset R^{3}

be an open, bounded and connected set with a regular boundary denoted by

\partial Ω .

Consider the functional

J : V \to R

where

\begin{matrix} J (u) & = & \frac{γ}{2} \int_{Ω} \nabla u \cdot \nabla u d x + \frac{α}{2} \int_{Ω} {(u^{2} - β)}^{2} d x \\ - {〈 u, f 〉}_{L^{2}}, \end{matrix}

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α > 0, β > 0, γ > 0

V = W_{0}^{1, 2} (Ω)

and

f \in L^{2} (Ω) .

Denoting

Y = Y^{*} = L^{2} (Ω)

, define now

J_{1}^{*} : {[Y^{*}]}^{6} \to R

(with exact penalization) by

\begin{matrix} J_{1}^{*} (v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}, v_{3}^{*}, v_{0}^{*}, z_{1}^{*}, z_{2}^{*}) & = & - \int_{Ω} \frac{{(v_{1}^{*} + v_{3}^{*} - f)}^{2}}{- γ \nabla^{2}} d x - \int_{Ω} \frac{{(v_{2}^{*} - v_{3}^{*})}^{2}}{- γ \nabla^{2}} d x \\ - \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} \frac{{(- v_{1}^{*} + z_{1}^{*})}^{2}}{2 v_{0}^{*} + K (A)} d x - \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} \frac{{(- v_{2}^{*} + z_{2}^{*})}^{2}}{K (1 - A)} d x \\ + \int_{Ω} \frac{{(z_{1}^{*})}^{2}}{K} d x + \int_{Ω} \frac{{(z_{2}^{*})}^{2}}{K} d x \\ - \frac{1}{2 α} \int_{Ω} {(v_{0}^{*})}^{2} d x - β \int_{Ω} v_{0}^{*} d x . \end{matrix}

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Define also

B^{+} = {u \in V : u f \geq 0, a . e . in Ω},

V_{2} = {{u \in V : ∥ u ∥}_{\infty} \leq K_{3}},

and

V_{1} = V_{2} \cap B^{+} .

Moreover define

B^{*} = {v_{0}^{*} \in Y^{*} : ∥ v_{0}^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{4}}

for some appropriate constants

K_{3} > 0

and

K_{4} > 0

Define also

D^{*} = {(v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}, v_{3}^{*}) = w^{*} \in {[Y^{*}]}^{2} : ∥ w^{*} ∥_{\infty} \leq K_{5}},

for an appropriate

K_{5} > 0

to be specified.

Observe that, for appropriate

0 < A < 1

J_{1}^{*}

is concave in

v^{*} = (v_{1}^{*}, v_{2}^{*}, v_{3}^{*}, v_{0}^{*})

and convex in

z^{*} = (z_{1}^{*}, z_{2}^{*})

D^{*} \times B^{*} \times {[Y^{*}]}^{2}

. With such results in mind, we may easily prove the following theorem.

Theorem 14.1.

Assume an appropriate

0 < A < 1

and

K ≫ max {1, K_{3}, K_{4}, K_{5}}

and suppose

({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*}) \in D^{*} \times B^{*} \times {[Y^{*}]}^{2}

is such that

δ J_{2}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*}) = 0 .

Suppose also

u_{0} = 2 (\frac{{\hat{v}}_{2}^{*} - {\hat{v}}_{3}^{*}}{- γ \nabla^{2}}) \in V_{1} .

Under such hypotheses, we have that

δ J (u_{0}) = 0

and

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & J_{1}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*}) \\ = & sup_{v^{*} \in D^{*} \times B^{*}} \{inf_{z^{*} \in {[Y^{*}]}^{2}} J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}, z^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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Proof.

The proof that

δ J (u_{0}) = - γ \nabla^{2} u_{0} + 2 α (u^{2} - β) u_{0} - f = 0,

and

J (u_{0}) = J_{1}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*})

may be easily made similarly as in the previous sections.

Moreover, from the hypotheses and from the above lines, since

J_{1}^{*}

is concave in

v^{*}

and convex in

z^{*}

D^{*} \times B^{*} \times {[Y^{*}]}^{2}

, we have

J_{1}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*}) = sup_{v^{*} \in D^{*} \times B^{*}} J_{2}^{*} (v^{*}, \hat{z})

and

J_{1}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*}) = inf_{z^{*} \in {[Y^{*}]}^{2}} J_{1}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, z^{*}) .

From this, from the standard Min-Max Theorem and the remaining hypotheses, we may infer that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}) & = & J_{1}^{*} ({\hat{v}}^{*}, {\hat{z}}^{*}) \\ = & sup_{v^{*} \in D^{*} \times B^{*}} \{inf_{z^{*} \in {[Y^{*}]}^{2}} J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}, z^{*})\} . \end{matrix}

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The proof is complete. □

Remark 14.2.

The functional

J_{3}^{*} (v^{*}) = inf_{z^{*} \in {[Y^{*}]}^{2}} J_{1}^{*} (v^{*}, z^{*})

is indeed a concave dual variational formulation for a critical point of the primal model in question.

15. An algorithm for a related model in shape optimization

The next two subsections have been previously published by Fabio Silva Botelho and Alexandre Molter in [5], Chapter 21.

15.1. Introduction

Consider an elastic solid which the volume corresponds to an open, bounded, connected set, denoted by

Ω \subset R^{3}

with a regular (Lipschitzian) boundary denoted by

\partial Ω = Γ_{0} \cup Γ_{t}

where

Γ_{0} \cap Γ_{t} = \emptyset .

Consider also the problem of minimizing the functional

\hat{J} : U \times B \to R

where

\hat{J} (u, t) = \frac{1}{2} {〈 u_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + \frac{1}{2} {〈 u_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})},

subject to

\{\begin{matrix} {(H_{i j k l} (t) e_{k l} (u))}_{, j} + f_{i} = 0 in Ω, \\ H_{i j k l} (t) e_{k l} (u) n_{j} - {\hat{f}}_{i} = 0, on Γ_{t}, \forall i \in {1, 2, 3} . \end{matrix}

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Here

n = (n_{1}, n_{2}, n_{3})

denotes the outward normal to

\partial Ω

and

U = {u = (u_{1}, u_{2}, u_{3}) \in W^{1, 2} (Ω; R^{3}) : u = (0, 0, 0) = 0 on Γ_{0}},

B = \{t : Ω \to [0, 1] measurable : \int_{Ω} t (x) d x = t_{1} | Ω |\},

where

0 < t_{1} < 1

and

| Ω |

denotes the Lebesgue measure of

Ω .

Moreover

u = (u_{1}, u_{2}, u_{3}) \in W^{1, 2} (Ω; R^{3})

is the field of displacements relating the cartesian system

(0, x_{1}, x_{2}, x_{3})

, resulting from the action of the external loads

f \in L^{2} (Ω; R^{3})

and

\hat{f} \in L^{2} (Γ_{t}; R^{3}) .

We also define the stress tensor

{σ_{i j}} \in Y^{*} = Y = L^{2} (Ω; R^{3 \times 3}),

σ_{i j} (u) = H_{i j k l} (t) e_{k l} (u),

and the strain tensor

e : U \to L^{2} (Ω; R^{3 \times 3})

e_{i j} (u) = \frac{1}{2} (u_{i, j} + u_{j, i}), \forall i, j \in {1, 2, 3} .

Finally,

{H_{i j k l} (t)} = {t H_{i j k l}^{0} + (1 - t) H_{i j k l}^{1}},

where

H^{0}

corresponds to a strong material and

H^{1}

to a very soft material, intending to simulate voids along the solid structure.

The variable t is the design one, which the optimal distribution values along the structure are intended to minimize its inner work with a volume restriction indicated through the set B.

The duality principle obtained is developed inspired by the works in [2,3]. Similar theoretical results have been developed in [9], however we believe the proof here presented, which is based on the min-max theorem is easier to follow (indeed we thank an anonymous referee for his suggestion about applying the min-max theorem to complete the proof). We highlight throughout this text we have used the standard Einstein sum convention of repeated indices.

Moreover, details on the Sobolev spaces addressed may be found in [1]. In addition, the primal variational development of the topology optimization problem has been described in [9].

The main contributions of this work are to present the detailed development, through duality theory, for such a kind of optimization problems. We emphasize that to avoid the check-board standard and obtain appropriate robust optimized structures without the use of filters, it is necessary to discretize more in the load direction, in which the displacements are much larger.

15.2. Mathematical formulation of the topology optimization problem

Our mathematical topology optimization problem is summarized by the following theorem.

Theorem 15.1.

Consider the statements and assumptions indicated in the last section, in particular those refereing to Ω and the functional

\hat{J} : U \times B \to R .

Define

J_{1} : U \times B \to R

J_{1} (u, t) = - G (e (u), t) + {〈 u_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + {〈 u_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})},

where

G (e (u), t) = \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} H_{i j k l} (t) e_{i j} (u) e_{k l} (u) d x,

and where

d x = d x_{1} d x_{2} d x_{3} .

Define also

J^{*} : U \to R

\begin{matrix} J^{*} (u) & = & inf_{t \in B} {J_{1} (u, t)} \\ = & inf_{t \in B} {- G (e (u), t) + {〈 u_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + {〈 u_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})}} . \end{matrix}

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Assume there exists

c_{0}, c_{1} > 0

such that

H_{i j k l}^{0} z_{i j} z_{k l} > c_{0} z_{i j} z_{i j}

and

H_{i j k l}^{1} z_{i j} z_{k l} > c_{1} z_{i j} z_{i j}, \forall z = {z_{i j}} \in R^{3 \times 3}, such that z \neq 0 .

Finally, define

J : U \times B \to R \cup {+ \infty}

J (u, t) = \hat{J} (u, t) + I n d (u, t),

where

I n d (u, t) = \{\begin{matrix} 0, & if (u, t) \in A^{*}, \\ + \infty, & otherwise, \end{matrix}

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where

A^{*} = A_{1} \cap A_{2},

A_{1} = {(u, t) \in U \times B : {(σ_{i j} (u))}_{, j} + f_{i} = 0, in Ω, \forall i \in {1, 2, 3}}

and

A_{2} = {(u, t) \in U \times B : σ_{i j} (u) n_{j} - {\hat{f}}_{i} = 0, on Γ_{t}, \forall i \in {1, 2, 3}} .

Under such hypotheses, there exists

(u_{0}, t_{0}) \in U \times B

such that

\begin{matrix} J (u_{0}, t_{0}) & = & inf_{(u, t) \in U \times B} J (u, t) \\ = & sup_{\hat{u} \in U} J^{*} (\hat{u}) \\ = & J^{*} (u_{0}) \\ = & \hat{J} (u_{0}, t_{0}) \\ = & inf_{(t, σ) \in B \times C^{*}} G^{*} (σ, t) \\ = & G^{*} (σ (u_{0}), t_{0}), \end{matrix}

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where

\begin{matrix} G^{*} (σ, t) & = & sup_{v \in Y} {{〈 v_{i j}, σ_{i j} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} - G (v, t)} \\ = & \frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} {\bar{H}}_{i j k l} (t) σ_{i j} σ_{k l} d x, \end{matrix}

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{{\bar{H}}_{i j k l} (t)} = {H_{i j k l} (t)}^{- 1}

and

C^{*} = C_{1} \cap C_{2},

where

C_{1} = {σ \in Y^{*} : σ_{i j, j} + f_{i} = 0, in Ω, \forall i \in {1, 2, 3}}

and

C_{2} = {σ \in Y^{*} : σ_{i j} n_{j} - {\hat{f}}_{i} = 0, on Γ_{t}, \forall i \in {1, 2, 3}} .

Proof.

Observe that

\begin{matrix} inf_{(u, t) \in U \times B} J (u, t) & = & inf_{t \in B} \{inf_{u \in U} J (u, t)\} \\ = & inf_{t \in B} \{sup_{\hat{u} \in U} \{inf_{u \in U} \{\frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} H_{i j k l} (t) e_{i j} (u) e_{k l} (u) d x \\ + {〈 {\hat{u}}_{i}, {(H_{i j k l} (t) e_{k l} (u))}_{, j} + f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} \\ - {〈 {\hat{u}}_{i}, H_{i j k l} (t) e_{k l} (u) n_{j} - {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})}\}\}\} \\ = & inf_{t \in B} \{sup_{\hat{u} \in U} \{inf_{u \in U} \{\frac{1}{2} \int_{Ω} H_{i j k l} (t) e_{i j} (u) e_{k l} (u) d x \\ - \int_{Ω} H_{i j k l} (t) e_{i j} (\hat{u}) e_{k l} (u) d x \\ + {〈 {\hat{u}}_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + {〈 {\hat{u}}_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})}\}\}\} \\ = & inf_{t \in B} \{sup_{\hat{u} \in U} \{- \int_{Ω} H_{i j k l} (t) e_{i j} (\hat{u}) e_{k l} (\hat{u}) d x \\ {〈 {\hat{u}}_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + {〈 {\hat{u}}_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})}\}\} \\ = & inf_{t \in B} \{inf_{σ \in C^{*}} G^{*} (σ, t)\} . \end{matrix}

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Also, from this and the min-max theorem, there exist

(u_{0}, t_{0}) \in U \times B

such that

\begin{matrix} inf_{(u, t) \in U \times B} J (u, t) & = & inf_{t \in B} \{sup_{\hat{u} \in U} J_{1} (u, t)\} \\ = & sup_{u \in U} \{inf_{t \in B} J_{1} (u, t)\} \\ = & J_{1} (u_{0}, t_{0}) \\ = & inf_{t \in B} J_{1} (u_{0}, t) \\ = & J^{*} (u_{0}) . \end{matrix}

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Finally, from the extremal necessary condition

\frac{\partial J_{1} (u_{0}, t_{0})}{\partial u} = 0

we obtain

{(H_{i j k l} (t_{0}) e_{k l} (u_{0}))}_{, j} + f_{i} = 0 in Ω,

and

H_{i j k l} (t_{0}) e_{k l} (u_{0}) n_{j} - {\hat{f}}_{i} = 0 on Γ_{t}, \forall i \in {1, 2, 3},

so that

G (e (u_{0})) = \frac{1}{2} {〈 {(u_{0})}_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + \frac{1}{2} {〈 {(u_{0})}_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})} .

Hence

(u_{0}, t_{0}) \in A^{*}

so that

I n d (u_{0}, t_{0}) = 0

and

σ (u_{0}) \in C^{*} .

Moreover

\begin{matrix} J^{*} (u_{0}) & = & - G (e (u_{0})) + {〈 {(u_{0})}_{i}, f_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Ω)} + {〈 {(u_{0})}_{i}, {\hat{f}}_{i} 〉}_{L^{2} (Γ_{t})} \\ = & G (e (u_{0})) \\ = & G (e (u_{0})) + I n d (u_{0}, t_{0}) \\ = & J (u_{0}, t_{0}) \\ = & G^{*} (σ (u_{0}), t_{0}) . \end{matrix}

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This completes the proof. □

15.3. About a concerning algorithm and related numerical method

For numerically solve this optimization problem in question, we present the following algorithm

1.: Set $t_{1} = 0.5 in Ω$ and $n = 1$ .
2.: Calculate $u_{n} \in U$ such that

$J_{1} (u_{n}, t_{n}) = sup_{u \in U} J_{1} (u, t_{n}) .$
3.: Calculate $t_{n + 1} \in B$ such that

$J_{1} (u_{n}, t_{n + 1}) = inf_{t \in B} J_{1} (u_{n}, t) .$
4.: If $∥ t_{n + 1} - t_{n} ∥_{\infty} < 10^{- 4}$ or $n > 100$ then stop, else set $n : = n + 1$ and go to item 2.

We have developed a software in finite differences for solving such a problem.

For a two dimensional beam of dimensions

1 m \times 0.5 m

and

t_{1} = 0.63

we have obtained the following results:

1.: Case A: For the optimal shape for a clamped beam at left (cantilever) and load $P = - 4 \cdot 10^{6} N j$ at $(x, y) = (1, 0.25)$ , please Figure 5.

In this case the mesh was $28 \times 24$ .

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Figure 1. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = 0

Figure 1. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = 0

Figure 2. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2

Figure 2. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2

Figure 3. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = 0

Figure 3. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = 0

Figure 4. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2

Figure 4. solution

u_{0} (x)

for the case

f (x) = sin (π x) / 2

Figure 5. Density

t (x, y)

for the Case A.

Figure 5. Density

t (x, y)

for the Case A.

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Duality Principles and Numerical Procedures for a Large Class of Non-convex Models in the Calculus of Variations

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. A general duality principle non-convex optimization

3. Another duality principle for a simpler related model in phase transition with a respective numerical example

4. A convex dual variational formulation for a third similar model

4.1. The algorithm through which we have obtained the numerical results

5. An improvement of the convexity conditions for a non-convex related model through an approximate primal formulation

6. An approximate convex variational formulation for another related model

7. An exact convex dual variational formulation for a non-convex primal one

8. An exact convex dual variational formulation for a non-convex primal one

9. Another primal dual formulation for a related model

10. A third primal dual formulation for a related model

11. A fourth primal dual formulation for a related model

12. One more primal dual formulation for a related model

13. Another primal dual formulation for a related model

14. A convex (in fact concave) dual formulation for a related model

15. An algorithm for a related model in shape optimization

15.1. Introduction

15.2. Mathematical formulation of the topology optimization problem

15.3. About a concerning algorithm and related numerical method

References

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