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Many problems in physics can be formulated as minimization problems, i.e. one minimizes some quantity — for instance some energy — on a suitable class of functions and one searches for a point achieving the infimum. As seen in Chapter 1 this is the case in elasticity theory (see [9], [12], [37], [47], [43]) and problems in this field. Let us recall the definition of a minimizer.
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Chipot, M. (2000). Minimizers. In: Elements of Nonlinear Analysis. Birkhäuser Advanced Texts. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8428-0_9
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