Comparison between the non-crossing and the non-crossing on lines properties

摘要

In the recent paper[1], it was proved that the closure of the planar diffeomorphisms in the Sobolev norm consists of the functions which are non-crossing (NC), i.e., the functions which can be uniformly approximated by continuous one-to-one functions on grids. A deep simplification of this property is to consider curves instead of grids, so considering functions which are non-crossing on lines (NCL). Since the NCL property is much easier to verify, it would be extremely positive if they actually coincide, while it is only obvious that NC implies NCL. We show that in general NCL does not imply NC, but the implication becomes true with the additional assumption that det(Du) > 0 a.e., which is a very common assumption in nonlinear elasticity. (C) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.