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We present a few connections between the notion of Div-free/Div-BV symmetric tensors, with geometrical topics such as convex bodies or minimal surfaces. In passing, we establish some related results about the Cofactor map and the geometrical mean of positive definite matrices.
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Serre, D. (2023). Divergence-Free Tensors and Cofactors in Geometry and Fluid Dynamics. In: Morel, JM., Teissier, B. (eds) Mathematics Going Forward . Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12244-6_32
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