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Young measures, Cartesian maps, and polyconvexity

Optimization and Control 2010-07-28 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider the variational problem consisting of minimizing a polyconvex integrand for maps between manifolds. We offer a simple and direct proof of the existence of a minimizing map. The proof is based on Young measures.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1684,
  title  = {Young measures, Cartesian maps, and polyconvexity},
  author = {Patrick Bernard and Ugo Bessi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1684},
  year   = {2010}
}
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