On the extreme rays of the cone of 3 3 quasiconvex quadratic forms: extremal determinants versus extremal and polyconvex forms

Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Determinants, permanents, traces, other special matrix functions (15A15) Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63)

Abstract: This work is concerned with the study of the extreme rays of the convex cone of

3 i m e s 3

quasiconvex quadratic forms (denoted by

{c a l C}_{3}

). We characterize quadratic forms

f i n {c a l C}_{3},

the determinant of the acoustic tensor of which is an extremal polynomial, and conjecture/discuss about other cases. We prove that in the case when the determinant of the acoustic tensor of a form

f i n {c a l C}_{3}

is an extremal polynomial other than a perfect square, then the form must itself be an extreme ray of

{c a l C}_{3};

when the determinant is a perfect square, then the form is either an extreme ray of

{c a l C}_{3}

or polyconvex; and finally, when the determinant is identically zero, then the form

f

must be polyconvex. The zero determinant case plays an important role in the proofs of the other two cases. We also make a conjecture on the extreme rays of

{c a l C}_{3},

and discuss about weak and strong etremals of

{c a l C}_{d}

for

d g e q 3.

where it turns out that several properties of

{c a l C}_{3}

do not hold for

{c a l C}_{d}

for

d > 3,

and thus case

d = 3

is special. These results recover all previously known results (to our best knowledge) on examples of extreme points of

{c a l C}_{3}

that were proved to be such. Our results also improve the ones proven by the first author and Milton [20].

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