 Inflation pressure of a thin incompressible elastic balloon

At leading thin-shell order, a spherical balloon with reference radius $a_0$, thickness $h_0$ and current radius $a=\lambda a_0$ has reference elastic energy $4\pi a_0^2{h}_{0}W(\lambda ,\lambda ,{\lambda }^{-2})$. Equating its differential to pressure work $p4\pi a^{2}da$ gives the displayed pressure difference. Its thickness becomes $h_0{\lambda }^{-2}$ by incompressibility. The same result follows from the spherical membrane force balance $p=2h{\sigma }_t/a$, with current tangential Cauchy stress tensor component ${\sigma }_t=\lambda N$ and the equibiaxial nominal tension of an incompressible sheet. Thin-shell validity requires $h/a\ll 1$.