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Quasiconvexity at the boundary, positivity of the second variation and elastic stability

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  2. Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, USA

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Ball, J.M., Marsden, J.E. Quasiconvexity at the boundary, positivity of the second variation and elastic stability. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 86, 251–277 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00281558

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