Strain Tensors and Matching Property on Surfaces with the Gauss curvature changing sign

Abstract

We prove the regularity of solutions to the strain tensor equation on a region $S$ with the Gauss curvature changing sign. Furthermore, we obtain the density property that smooth infinitesimal isometries are dense in the $W^{2,2}(S,\mathbb{R}^3)$ infinitesimal isometries. Finally, the matching property is established. Those results are important tools in obtaining recovery sequences ($\Gamma$-lim sup inequality) for dimensionally-reduced shell theories in elasticity.