# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2019, 11(1): 59-76. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2019004

## A geometric perspective on the Piola identity in Riemannian settings

 Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

* Corresponding author: Asaf Shachar

Received  May 2018 Revised  December 2018 Published  January 2019

Fund Project: This research was partially funded by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 1035/17), and by a grant from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, Israel and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Federation.

The Piola identity $\operatorname{div}\; \operatorname{cof} \;\nabla f = 0$ is a central result in the mathematical theory of elasticity. We prove a generalized version of the Piola identity for mappings between Riemannian manifolds, using two approaches, based on different interpretations of the cofactor of a linear map: one follows the lines of the classical Euclidean derivation and the other is based on a variational interpretation via Null-Lagrangians. In both cases, we first review the Euclidean case before proceeding to the general Riemannian setting.

Citation: Raz Kupferman, Asaf Shachar. A geometric perspective on the Piola identity in Riemannian settings. Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2019, 11 (1) : 59-76. doi: 10.3934/jgm.2019004
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Illustration of the geometric setting of the Euclidean Piola identity
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