Non-Coercive Radially Symmetric Variational Problems: Existence, Symmetry and Convexity of Minimizers

We prove the existence of radially symmetric solutions and the validity of Euler–Lagrange necessary conditions for a class of variational problems with slow growth. The results are obtained through the construction of suitable superlinear perturbations of the functional having the same minimizers of the original one.

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