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Has this notion of "variation along the diagonal of a not-necessarily-smooth function" been studied before?

I am interested in knowing whether something along the lines of the "diagonal variation" defined below has been studied before. In spirit, the basic idea is that it is a kind of ...
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Elasticity tensor in terms of principal stretches

Suppose we are given a frame-indifferent isotropic function $W:GL_+(3) \to [0,\infty)$, where $GL_+(3)$ denotes the set of all real $(3\times 3)$-matrices with positive determinant. We can write $W(F)$...