A note on the extreme points of the cone of quasiconvex quadratic forms with orthotropic symmetry

Abstract

We study the extreme points of the cone of quasiconvex quadratic forms with linear elastic orthotropic symmetry. We prove that if the determinant of the acoustic matrix of the associated forth order tensor of the quadratic form is an extremal polynomial, then the quadratic form is an extreme point of the cone in the same symmetry class. The extremality of polynomials and quadratic forms here is understood in classical convex analysis sense.