Ramaswamy's conjecture on fail points
Ramaswamy's conjecture on fail points
Let be a planar convex domain symmetric about the two coordinate axes. A fail point is a point where attains its maximum, where is the torsion function. The largest inscribed circle is a circle of maximal radius contained in .
Ramaswamy's conjecture. The fail points occur either at the contact points of the largest inscribed circle or at points of minimal curvature.
This modified conjecture was proposed after Saint-Venant's conjecture was disproved and has been widely accepted in the mechanical engineering community. The source gives no resolution of Ramaswamy's conjecture.
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Primary source
Qinfeng Li, Shuangquan Xie, Hang Yang and Ruofei Yao, “On the location of the maximal gradient of the torsion function over some non-symmetric planar domains”, arXiv:2406.04790 (2026).
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