We study the connection between atomistic and continuum models for the elastic deformation of crystalline solids at zero temperature. We prove, under certain sharp stability conditions, that the correct nonlinear elasticity model is given by the classical Cauchy–Born rule in the sense that elastically deformed states of the atomistic model are closely approximated by solutions of the continuum ...

In continuum mechanics, the constitutive models are usually based on the Cauchy–Born (CB) hypothesis which seeks the intrinsic characteristics of the material via the atomistic information and it is valid in small deformation. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the temperature effect on the stability and size-dependency of Cauchy–Born hypothesis. Three-dimensional temperature-rela...

Abstract. We study solutions of a class of higher order partial differential equations in bounded domains. These partial differential equations appeared first time in the papers of Baeumer, Meerschaert and Nane [10] and Meerschaert, Nane and Vellaisamy [31], and Nane [36]. We express the solutions by subordinating a killed Markov process by a hitting time of a stable subordinator of index 0 < β...

We investigate the stability of Bravais lattices and their Cauchy–Born approximations under periodic perturbations. We formulate a general interaction law and derive its Cauchy–Born continuum limit. We then analyze the atomistic and Cauchy– Born stability regions, that is, the sets of all matrices that describe a stable Bravais lattice in the atomistic and Cauchy–Born models respectively. Motiv...