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We study the behaviour of sequences of elastic deformationsyΩ ⊂ ℝn → ℝn whose gradients approach two linearized wells, and give an application to magnetostriction.

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DeSimone, A., Friesecke, G. On the problem of two linearized wells. Calc. Var 4, 293–304 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01254349

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