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.
References
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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