Sets of gradients with no rank-one connections (Q1102524)

Examples are given for \(m\geq n\geq 3\) and \(n=2\), \(m\geq 4\) of rank-one convex integrands \(W: M^{m\times n}\to {\mathbb{R}}\cup \{+\infty)\) which are not quasiconvex in the sense of Morrey. The method is based on the construction of smooth mappings \(u: \bar \Omega \to \mathbb{R}^ n\) with linear boundary values, where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ m\) is bounded and open, such that the set of gradients \(Du(\bar\Omega)\) has no rank-one connections. The integrands W take the value \(+\infty\) in an essential way. Using similar ideas examples are exhibited of bounded sequences of mappings \(u^{(j)}\) in \(W^{1,\infty}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^ n)\) such that \(Du^{(j)}\) has essential support in a closed set \(K \subset M^{m \times n}\) having no rank-one connections, but such that the Young measure corresponding to \(Du^{(j)}\) is not a Dirac mass. Finally it is shown that the same construction does not work for m = n = 2, at least for sufficiently smooth mappings u.