## On the symmetry of minimizers.(English)Zbl 1159.49005

Summary: For a large class of variational problems we prove that minimizers are symmetric whenever they are $$C^{1}$$.

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 49J20 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations 35B37 PDE in connection with control problems (MSC2000) 35J60 Nonlinear elliptic equations
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