Necessary and sufficient conditions for strong ellipticity of isotropic functions in any dimension

We consider hyperelastic stored energy functions in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ that are isotropic. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the ellipticity of such functions. The present article is essentially a review of recent results on the subject.

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