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Minimizers with topological singularities in two dimensional elasticity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2007
Abstract
For a class of 2-D elastic energies we show that a radial equilibrium solution
is the unique global minimizer in a subclass of all admissible maps. The
boundary constraint is a double cover of S1; the minimizer u is C1
and is such that $\det\nabla u$ vanishes at one point.
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- Research Article
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- ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 192 - 209
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- © EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2007
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