Morrey's rank-one convexity conjecture in two dimensions

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Let E:Rm×nR\mathbf E:\mathbb R^{m\times n}\rightarrow\mathbb R be a continuous function. It is rank-one convex when, for every ARm×nA\in\mathbb R^{m\times n} and every rank-one matrix XX, the function tE(A+tX)t\mapsto\mathbf E(A+tX) is convex. It is quasiconvex when

Rn[E(A+Dη)E(A)]0\int_{\mathbb R^n}[\mathbf E(A+D\eta)-\mathbf E(A)]\geqslant0

for every ARm×nA\in\mathbb R^{m\times n} and every ηC0(Rn,Rm)\eta\in\mathscr C^\infty_0(\mathbb R^n,\mathbb R^m).

Morrey's conjecture. Every rank-one convex function E:R2×2R\mathbf E:\mathbb R^{2\times2}\rightarrow\mathbb R is quasiconvex.

This is the two-dimensional case of the rank-one convexity versus quasiconvexity problem. The source presents it as an enduring open problem motivated by Morrey's theory and the known higher-dimensional counterexamples.

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Primary source

Kari Astala, Tadeusz Iwaniec, István Prause and Eero Saksman, “A hunt for sharp L ^p-estimates and rank-one convex variational integrals”, arXiv:1403.1095 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1012.0504.

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