Integral representation for functionals defined on \(SBD^p\) in dimension two (Q509960)

The space of functions of bounded deformation \(BD(\Omega)\) is characterized by the fact that the symmetric part of the distributional gradient \(Eu := \frac{(Du + Du^T )}{2}\) of \(u \in L^1 (\Omega, \mathbb{R}^n )\) is a bounded Radon measure, namely \[ BD(\Omega) := \{u : L^1 (\Omega; \mathbb{R}^n ) : Eu \in \mathcal{M}\{(\Omega, \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}_{\mathrm{sym}} )\}, \] where \(\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n\) is an open set. The space \(SBD^p\) is the set of \(BD\) functions such that the strain \(Eu\) can be written as the sum of a function in \(L^p (\Omega, \mathbb{R}^{n \times n} )\) and a part concentrated on a rectifiable set with finite \(H^{n-1}\)-measure. The situation of functionals defined on \(SBD^p \) and with corresponding growth properties is open. In this article, the authors give an integral representation result of this problem in two dimensions.