The quasiconcavity conjecture for Burkholder functions

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For p⩾n/2p\geqslant n/2 and λ⩾∣1−n/p∣\lambda\geqslant\left|1-n/p\right|, define the Burkholder matrix function

E(A)=[±det⁡A−λ∣A∣n]∣A∣p−n,A∈Rn×n.\mathbf E(A)=\left[\pm\det A-\lambda|A|^n\right]|A|^{p-n},\qquad A\in\mathbb R^{n\times n}.

The source also defines the planar Burkholder function Bp(ξ,ζ)\mathbf B_p(\xi,\zeta) and calls these functions Burkholder functions. Quasiconcavity conjecture. Burkholder functions are quasiconcave.

The preceding theorem establishes rank-one concavity, but rank-one concavity does not generally imply quasiconcavity. The conjecture asks whether this implication holds for this distinguished family of integrands.

References

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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).

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