Paper 4, Section II, A
Part II, 2011
Consider the functional
where is a bounded domain in with smooth boundary and is smooth. Assume that is convex in for all and that there is a such that
(i) Prove that is well-defined on , bounded from below and strictly convex. Assume without proof that is weakly lower-semicontinuous. State this property. Conclude the existence of a unique minimizer of .
(ii) Which elliptic boundary value problem does the minimizer solve?