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Multi-level structured deformations: relaxation via a global method approach

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-23 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We present some relaxation and integral representation results for energy functionals in the setting of structured deformations, with special emphasis given to the case of multi-level structured deformations. In particular, we present an integral representation result for an abstract class of variational functionals in this framework via a global method for relaxation and identify, under quite general assumptions, the corresponding relaxed energy densities through the study of a related local Dirichlet-type problem. Some applications to specific relaxation problems are also mentioned, showing that our global method approach recovers some previously established results.

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@article{arxiv.2504.15443,
  title  = {Multi-level structured deformations: relaxation via a global method approach},
  author = {A. C. Barroso and J. Matias and E. Zappale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15443},
  year   = {2025}
}
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