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Numerical analysis of oscillations in nonconvex problems

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We study numerically the pattern of the minimizing sequences of nonconvex problems which do not admit a minimizer.

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Chipot, M. Numerical analysis of oscillations in nonconvex problems. Numer. Math. 59, 747–767 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01385808

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