On the representations for isotropic vector-valued, symmetric tensor- valued and skew-symmetric tensor-valued functions (Q1261675)

In this paper, all tensors are of second order in a 3-dimensional vector space. A function \(\varphi(A_ i,W_ p,v_ m)\) is said to be isotropic if it is invariant under orthogonal transformation, where \(A_ i\), \(W_ p\) and \(V_ m\) are given symmetric tensors, skew-symmetric tensors and vectors respectively. The functions can be scalar-valued, symmetric or skew-symmetric tensor-valued. The author gives a new derivation procedure for determining the representations of the isotropic functions, i.e., determining the sets of generators for these isotropic (vector-valued, symmetric or skew- symmetric tensor-valued) functions.