Abstract
It is shown that a possibly infinite-valued proper lower semicontinuous convex function on Rn has an extension to a convex function on the half-space Rn×[0, ∞) which is finite and smooth on the open half-space Rn×(0, ∞). The result is applied to nonlinear elasticity, where it clarifies how the condition of polyconvexity of the free-energy density ψ(Dy) is best expressed when ψ(A)→∞ as detA→0+.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 107 |
| Journal | Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 17 Apr 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2024 |
Keywords
- 74B20
- 49J45
- 26B25