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New relaxation theorems with applications to strong materials. / Mandallena, Jean Philippe; Sychev, Mikhail.
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics, Vol. 148, No. 5, 01.10.2018, p. 1029-1047.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - New relaxation theorems with applications to strong materials
AU - Mandallena, Jean Philippe
AU - Sychev, Mikhail
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Recently, Sychev showed that conditions both necessary and sufficient for lower semicontinuity of integral functionals with p-coercive extended-valued integrands are the W1,p-quasi-convexity and the validity of a so-called matching condition (M). Condition (M) is so general that we conjecture whether it always holds in the case of continuous integrands. In this paper we develop the relaxation theory under the validity of condition (M). It turns out that a better relaxation theory is available in this case. This motivates our research since it is an important old open problem to develop the relaxation theory in the case of extended-value integrands. Then we discuss applications of the general relaxation theory to some concrete cases, in particular to the theory of strong materials.
AB - Recently, Sychev showed that conditions both necessary and sufficient for lower semicontinuity of integral functionals with p-coercive extended-valued integrands are the W1,p-quasi-convexity and the validity of a so-called matching condition (M). Condition (M) is so general that we conjecture whether it always holds in the case of continuous integrands. In this paper we develop the relaxation theory under the validity of condition (M). It turns out that a better relaxation theory is available in this case. This motivates our research since it is an important old open problem to develop the relaxation theory in the case of extended-value integrands. Then we discuss applications of the general relaxation theory to some concrete cases, in particular to the theory of strong materials.
KW - extended-valued integrand
KW - lower semicontinuity
KW - relaxation
KW - strong materials
KW - W-quasi-convexity
KW - ENERGY
KW - MINIMA
KW - CALCULUS
KW - GRADIENT
KW - NONLINEAR ELASTICITY
KW - INTEGRALS
KW - GROWTH
KW - W-1;p-quasi-convexity
KW - LOWER SEMICONTINUITY
KW - CONVERGENCE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045749790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0308210518000082
DO - 10.1017/S0308210518000082
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045749790
VL - 148
SP - 1029
EP - 1047
JO - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics
JF - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics
SN - 0308-2105
IS - 5
ER -
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