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Past exam of the calculus of variations course of the University of Oxford 2011 1 b ii Solution by
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The integrand is nonnegative, so . For each positive integer , setThis is a continuous piecewise affine sawtooth with zero endpoints, , and almost everywhere. It belongs to , and almost everywhere. ThereforeTogether with nonnegativity this proves . The functions converge uniformly to zero while their derivatives retain magnitude two; small amplitude does not force small gradient.
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