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Hidden convexity in a problem of nonlinear elasticity

Analysis of PDEs 2020-11-04 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We study compressible and incompressible nonlinear elasticity variational problems in a general context. Our main result gives a sufficient condition for an equilibrium to be a global energy minimizer, in terms of convexity properties of the pressure in the deformed configuration. We also provide a convex relaxation of the problem together with its dual formulation, based on measure-valued mappings, which coincides with the original problem under our condition.

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@article{arxiv.2004.10287,
  title  = {Hidden convexity in a problem of nonlinear elasticity},
  author = {Nassif Ghoussoub and Young-Heon Kim and Hugo Lavenant and Aaron Zeff Palmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10287},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages

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