In this report, we demonstrate the existence of variational problems with
infima that depend continuously upon the Sobolev space from which the
competing functions are taken. It is shown, for each

in a
particular class of continuous functions, that there is a variational
integral and boundary conditions such that, for every
![$p\in [1,\infty]$](img2.gif)
,
the
infimum is equal to

if the admissible class is a subset of
W1,p. So the manner in which the infimum depends upon the Sobolev
exponent may be prescribed.