Anisotropic extension of the Walpole–Kelvin equivalence criterion

Let GG be a subgroup of SO(3)\mathrm{SO}(3), let T\mathbb{T} be a tensor space with its GG-representation, and let C[TST]G\mathrm{C}\in\left[\mathbb{T}\otimes^S\mathbb{T}\right]^G. Write G(T)\sharp^G(\mathbb{T}) for the number of GG-irreducible components in the decomposition of T\mathbb{T}, and regard [TST]G\left[\mathbb{T}\otimes^S\mathbb{T}\right]^G as the space of GG-invariant symmetric endomorphisms of T\mathbb{T}. Anisotropic Walpole–Kelvin equivalence conjecture. The Walpole and Kelvin representations of C\mathrm{C} are equivalent if and only if

dim([TST]G)=G(T).\dim\left(\left[\mathbb{T}\otimes^S\mathbb{T}\right]^G\right)=\sharp^G(\mathbb{T}).

This conjectures that the criterion proved for isotropic tensors extends to anisotropic situations governed by a subgroup GG of SO(3)\mathrm{SO}(3). The paper does not investigate this extension, so its validity remains open.

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Nicolas Auffray, “On the algebraic structure of isotropic generalized elasticity theories”, arXiv:1309.3939 (2013).

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