A total-variation surface energy model for thin films of martensitic crystals

We rigorously derive a thin film limit for martensitic crystals that utilizes the total variation of the deformation gradient to model the energy on surfaces separating regions of different variants. We find that the deformation for an infinitesimally thin film minimizes a two-dimensional energy.

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