Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Baisheng Yan
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 3335-3340.
MSC (1991): Primary 30C65, 30C70, 49J45
Posted: May 11, 2000
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Abstract: We give a new proof that the limit of a weakly convergent sequence of mappings with finite distortion also has finite distortion. The result has been recently proved by Gehring and Iwaniec using the biting convergence of Jacobians. We present a different proof using simply the lower semi-continuity of quasiconvex functionals.

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