Trudinger–Wang affine Bernstein conjecture

Let u ⁣:RnRu\colon\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R} be smooth and locally uniformly convex. Write

U=(Uij)=(detD2u)(D2u)1,U=(U^{ij})=(\det D^2u)(D^2u)^{-1},

and

w=[detD2u]n+1n+2.w=[\det D^2u]^{-\frac{n+1}{n+2}}.

Assume that uu satisfies

i,j=1nUijwij=0.\sum_{i,j=1}^{n}U^{ij}w_{ij}=0.

Trudinger–Wang's conjecture. If n9n\leq 9, then uu is an elliptic quadratic polynomial. If n10n\geq 10, then there exists a smooth, locally uniformly convex solution of the equation which is not an elliptic quadratic polynomial. The conjecture describes the sharp dimension threshold for the affine Bernstein problem: the low-dimensional assertion is known in the stated setting, while the higher-dimensional existence assertion is supported by the singular counterexample discussed in the source; the combined formulation is treated here as unresolved.

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Primary source

Nam Q. Le, “The second boundary value problem of the prescribed affine mean curvature equation and related linearized Monge-Ampère equation”, arXiv:1702.08366 (2017).

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