IRENE FONSECA and JAN MALÝ

From Jacobian to Hessian: distributional form and relaxation

Pages 45-74
Received: 21 January 2005   
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 49J45 - 49K20

Abstract: A weak formulation of the determinant of the matrix of second order derivatives is introduced and several of its properties are explored in analogy with the theory developed for the weak Jacobian.