Cartesian currents, weak diffeomorphisms and existence theorems in nonlinear elasticity

DOI10.1007/BF00251429zbMath0677.73014MaRDI QIDQ1123674

Mariano Giaquinta, Giuseppe Modica, Jiří Souček

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Sobolev spaces; existence theorems; cavitation; coercivity hypotheses; generalized diffeomorphisms; globally invertible minimizers; minimize an elastic energy functional; subspaces of the space of rectifiable currents; three-dimensional hyperelasticity; weak sequential closedness results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74B20: Nonlinear elasticity

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

49Q15: Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization

58A15: Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory)

49Q99: Manifolds and measure-geometric topics

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