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On Polyconvexity and Almgren Uniform Ellipticity With Respect to Polyhedral Test Pairs

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-21 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study anisotropic geometric energy functionals defined on a class of k-dimensional surfaces in a Euclidean space. The classical notion of ellipticity, coming from Almgren, for such functionals is investigated. We prove a variant of a recent result of De Rosa, Lei, and Young and show that uniform ellipticity of an anisotropic energy functional with respect to real polyhedral chains implies uniform polyconvexity of the integrand.

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@article{arxiv.2501.12472,
  title  = {On Polyconvexity and Almgren Uniform Ellipticity With Respect to Polyhedral Test Pairs},
  author = {Maciej Lesniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12472},
  year   = {2025}
}