On a Free-Endpoint Isoperimetric Problem in $\mathbb{R}^2$
| Autor: | Alama, Stanley, Bronsard, Lia, Vriend, Silas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Inspired by a planar partitioning problem involving multiple improper chambers, this article investigates using classical techniques what can be said of the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of minimizers in a certain free-endpoint isoperimetric problem. By restricting to curves which are expressible as graphs of functions, a full existence-uniqueness-regularity result is proved using a convexity technique inspired by work of Talenti. The problem studied here can be interpreted physically as the identification of the equilibrium shape of a sessile liquid drop in half-space (in the absence of gravity). This is a well-studied variational problem whose full resolution requires the use of geometric measure theory, in particular the theory of sets of finite perimeter, but here we present a more direct, classical geometrical approach. Conjectures on improper planar partitioning problems are presented throughout. Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures. Accepted with minor revisions to the proceedings of Anisotropic Isoperimetric Problems & Related Topics (AIPRT) 2022 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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