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The quasiconvex hull for the five-gradient problem

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In [8 Chapter 4.3] Kirchheim and Preiss gave an example of a set K consisting of five 2 × 2 symmetric matrices without rank-one connections, for which there exists a Lipschitz mapping u satisfying \({Du \in K}\) . In the present paper we construct the rank-one convex hull of K. As a corollary we obtain that for each \({F \in {\rm int}\,K^{rc}}\) there exists a Lipschitz mapping u satisfying

$$Du \in K\quad{\rm and}\quad u(x) = Fx\,{\rm for}\,x\,\in\,{\partial} \Omega \,.$$

Moreover, we show that the rank-one convex hull of K and the quasiconvex hull of K are equal.

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This work is supported by the KBN grant nr 1 PO3 A 008 29.

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Pompe, W. The quasiconvex hull for the five-gradient problem. Calc. Var. 37, 461–473 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-009-0272-z

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