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We exhibit a Lavrentiev gap phenomenon for the neo-Hookean energy in three-dimensional nonlinear elasticity. More precisely, we construct boundary data for which the infimum of the neo-Hookean energy over deformations satisfying a natural…
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The last decade has shown a tremendous success in solving various computer vision problems with the help of deep learning techniques. Lately, many works have demonstrated that learning-based approaches with suitable network architectures…
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The use of Variational Autoencoders in different Machine Learning tasks has drastically increased in the last years. They have been developed as denoising, clustering and generative tools, highlighting a large potential in a wide range of…
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