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Limits of Obstacle Problems for the Area Functional

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Partial Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations

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We study the general form of the limit, in the sense of Γ-convergence, of a sequence of variational problems for the area functional with one-side obstacles.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Lecce, Via Arnesano, I-73100, Lecce, Italia

    Michele Carriero, Antonio Leaci & Eduardo Pascali

  2. SISSA, Strada Costiera, 11, I-34014, Trieste, Italia

    Gianni Dal Maso

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 2, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Ferruccio Colombini , Antonio Marino , Luciano Modica  & Sergio Spagnolo , ,  & 

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Dedicated to Ennio De Giorgi on his sixtieth birthday

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Carriero, M., Dal Maso, G., Leaci, A., Pascali, E. (1989). Limits of Obstacle Problems for the Area Functional. In: Colombini, F., Marino, A., Modica, L., Spagnolo, S. (eds) Partial Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 1. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9828-2_11

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