The concavifying-function conjecture for Lovelock symmetric functions

Let a=(a0,a1,,ap)(R+)p+1\overrightarrow{a}=(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_p)\in(\mathbb{R}_+)^{p+1} and define

fa:=a0σ0+a1σ1++apσp.f_{\overrightarrow{a}}:=a_0\sigma_0+a_1\sigma_1+\cdots+a_p\sigma_p.

Here Γn\Gamma_n denotes the Gårding cone. Concavifying-function conjecture. There exists FC2(R+R)F\in\mathcal{C}^2(\mathbb{R}_+^*\to\mathbb{R}) such that FfaF\circ f_{\overrightarrow{a}} is concave on Γn\Gamma_n. The conjecture would extend the paper's existence of concavifying functions beyond the cases established there, while the general assertion remains unproved.

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Xavier Lachaume, “The constraint equations of Lovelock gravity theories: a new σ_k-Yamabe problem”, arXiv:1712.04528 (2018).

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