Quasiconvexity conjecture for the Korn variational integrand
Let be the dimension, let and be the orthogonal projections onto the skew-symmetric and symmetric matrices, and let be the function introduced in the paper. For , consider
Quasiconvexity conjecture. The displayed function is quasiconvex at some matrix . By homogeneity, quasiconvexity at implies quasiconvexity at . This proposed strengthening concerns the variational structure behind the sharp Korn constant and links the analytic inequality to quasiconvexity; the supplied excerpt does not state whether it has been resolved.
References
Primary source
Gabriele Cassese, “Korn's inequality from the viewpoint of calculus of variations”, arXiv:2603.22431 (2026).
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