Asymptotic rigidity for shells in non-Euclidean elasticity

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DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2022.109575zbMATH Open1503.53032arXiv2012.12075OpenAlexW3116740357MaRDI QIDQ2149509FDOQ2149509


Authors: Itai Alpern, Raz Kupferman, Cy Maor Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 29 June 2022

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a prototypical "stretching plus bending" functional of an elastic shell. The shell is modeled as a d-dimensional Riemannian manifold endowed, in addition to the metric, with a reference second fundamental form. The shell is immersed into a (d+1)-dimensional ambient space, and the elastic energy accounts for deviations of the induced metric and second fundamental forms from their reference values. Under the assumption that the ambient space is of constant sectional curvature, we prove that any sequence of immersions of asymptotically vanishing energy converges to an isometric immersion of the shell into ambient space, having the reference second fundamental form. In particular, if the ambient space is Euclidean space, then the reference metric and second fundamental form satisfy the Gauss-Codazzi-Mainardi compatibility conditions. This theorem can be viewed as a (manifold-valued) co-dimension 1 analog of Reshetnyak's asymptotic rigidity theorem. It also relates to recent results on the continuity of surfaces with respect to their fundamental forms.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12075




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