Duality, triality and complementary extremum principles in non-convex parametric variational problems with applications

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-235

  Gao, David Yang ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic solution; Complementary energy; Duality theory; Finite deformation theory; Fully nonlinear system; Non convex optimization; Nonlinear variational problem; Partial differential equations; Phase transitions; Triality; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPLEMENTARY EXTREMUM PRINCIPLE; DUALITY THEORY; FINITE DEFORMATION THEORY;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032324860     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/61.3.199     Document Type: Article

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