Relaxation of certain integral functionals depending on strain and chemical composition

Abstract

The authors provide a relaxation result in BV × L ^q, 1 ≤ q < + ∞ as the first step towards the analysis of thermochemical equilibria.

Keywords

Relaxation / Functions of bounded variation / Quasiconvexity

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