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Weak variations of Lipschitz graphs and stability of phase boundaries

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In the case of Lipschitz extremals of vectorial variational problems, an important class of strong variations originates from smooth deformations of the corresponding non-smooth graphs. These seemingly singular variations, which can be viewed as combinations of weak inner and outer variations, produce directions of differentiability of the functional and lead to singularity-centered necessary conditions on strong local minima: an equality, arising from stationarity, and an inequality, implying configurational stability of the singularity set. To illustrate the underlying coupling between inner and outer variations, we study in detail the case of smooth surfaces of gradient discontinuity representing, for instance, martensitic phase boundaries in non-linear elasticity.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Yury Grabovsky

  2. Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Vladislav A. Kucher

  3. Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Lev Truskinovsky

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Grabovsky, Y., Kucher, V.A. & Truskinovsky, L. Weak variations of Lipschitz graphs and stability of phase boundaries. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 23, 87–123 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-010-0171-8

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