Conformal-factorization conjecture for normalized symmetric gradients

Let ΩRn\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n be a bounded open connected domain with n3n\geq 3. Let uW1,n(Ω)u\in W^{1,n}(\Omega) and vW1,1(Ω)v\in W^{1,1}(\Omega) satisfy

det(u)>0,det(v)>0\det(\nabla u)>0,\qquad \det(\nabla v)>0

almost everywhere, and suppose that

Ω(undet(u))pdz<\int_{\Omega}\left(\frac{\|\nabla u\|^n}{\det(\nabla u)}\right)^p dz<\infty

for some p>n1p>n-1. If their normalized symmetric gradients agree almost everywhere,

S(u(z))S(u(z))=S(v(z))S(v(z))for almost every zΩ,\frac{S(\nabla u(z))}{|S(\nabla u(z))|}=\frac{S(\nabla v(z))}{|S(\nabla v(z))|}\quad\text{for almost every }z\in\Omega,

then there exists a Möbius transformation Φ\Phi such that v=Φuv=\Phi\circ u. Normalized symmetric-gradient conjecture. Under these hypotheses, there exists a Möbius transformation Φ\Phi satisfying v=Φuv=\Phi\circ u. The conjecture seeks a higher-dimensional analogue of conformal factorization, extending the planar relationship between mappings with matching geometric distortion.

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Primary source

Andrew Lorent, “On functions whose symmetric part of gradient agree and a generalization of Reshetnyak's compactness theorem”, arXiv:1105.3993 (2014).

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