{ "id": "math/0307333", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-07-25T09:44:48.000Z", "updated": "2003-07-25T09:44:48.000Z", "title": "A duality theory for some non-convex functions of matrices", "authors": [ "Ivar Ekeland" ], "categories": [ "math.OC", "math.AP" ], "abstract": "We study a special class of non-convex functions which appear in nonlinear elasticity; and we prove that they have well-defined Legandre transforms. Several examples are given, and an application to a nonlinear eigenvalue problem", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-07-25T09:44:48.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "49N15", "74B20" ], "keywords": [ "non-convex functions", "duality theory", "nonlinear eigenvalue problem", "nonlinear elasticity", "special class" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2003math......7333E" } } }