@article {2013, title = {Stability of equilibrium configurations for elastic films in two and three dimensions}, journal = {Advances in Calculus of Variations}, volume = {8}, number = {SISSA preprint;SISSA 38/2013/MATE}, year = {2014}, month = {01/2014}, pages = {117-153}, publisher = {SISSA}, chapter = {117}, abstract = {
We establish a local minimality sufficiency criterion, based on the strict positivity of the second variation, in the context of a variational model for the epitaxial growth of elastic films. Our result holds also in the three-dimensional case and for a general class of nonlinear elastic energies. Applications to the study of the local minimality of flat morphologies are also shown.
}, keywords = {Epitaxially strained elastic films}, issn = {Online: 1864-8266; Print: 1864-8258}, doi = { https://doi.org/10.1515/acv-2013-0018}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/acv.2015.8.issue-2/acv-2013-0018/acv-2013-0018.xml}, author = {Marco Bonacini} }