Note on injectivity in second-gradient Nonlinear Elasticity

Abstract

Let $q>1$, $(1-\frac{1}{q})a\geq 1$ and let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be Lipschitz domain. We show that planar mappings in the second order Sobolev space $f\in W^{2,q}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^2)$ with $|J_f|^{-a}\in L^1(\Omega)$ are homeomorphism if they agree with a homeomorphism on the boundary. The condition $(1-\frac{1}{q})a\geq 1$ is sharp. We also have a new sharp result about the $\mathcal{H}^{n-1}$ measure of the projection of the set $\{J_f=0\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$.