The quasiconcavity conjecture for Burkholder functions at the zero matrix

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Let E:Rn×n→R\mathbf E:\mathbb R^{n\times n}\rightarrow\mathbb R be a Burkholder function, including the functions defined from the Burkholder expressions in the source. A function is quasiconcave at AA when the quasiconcavity inequality is imposed at that matrix; the source notes that quasiconcavity at some matrix implies quasiconcavity at the zero matrix for the relevant homogeneous-at-infinity setting.

Zero-matrix quasiconcavity conjecture. Burkholder functions are quasiconcave at the zero matrix.

The conjecture is motivated by the failure of general rank-one concavity to imply quasiconcavity and by the Beurling function, which is quasiconcave at the origin under the stated norm condition but not quasiconcave away from the origin when p≠2p\ne2.

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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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