Quasiconvexity at the boundary and a simple variational formulation of agmon's condition

Journal of Elasticity

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-41

  Mielke, Alexander ^a   Sprenger, Pius ^a  

^a Leibniz University Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agmon's condition; Coercivity of quadratic functionals; Elasticity theory; Local minimizers; Matrix valued Riccati equation; Null Lagrangians; Quasiconvexity at the boundary; Rank one convexity

Indexed keywords

AGMON'S CONDITION; COERCIVITY OF QUADRATIC FUNCTIONALS; ELASTICITY THEORY; LOCAL MINIMIZERS; MATRIX-VALUED RICCATI EQUATIONS; NULL-LAGRANGIANS; QUASICONVEXITY AT THE BOUNDARY; RANK-ONE CONVEXITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RICCATI EQUATIONS; TENSORS; OPTIMIZATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; ELASTICITY;

AGMON CONDITION; QUADRATIC FUNCTIONALS; QUASICONVEXITY;

EID: 0032287479     PISSN: 03743535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007542228169     Document Type: Article

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