Isoperimetric inequalities in convex cylinders and cylindrically bounded convex bodies (Q493202)

The authors study the isoperimetric problem of minimizing the perimeter under a given volume constraint inside a cylindrically bounded convex body, an unbounded closed convex set \(\mathcal{C}\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) with interior points and relatively compact projection onto the hyperplane \(x_{n+1}=0\). The existence of isoperimetric regions is obtained following a scheme of proof given by \textit{M. Galli} and \textit{M. Ritoré} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 397, No. 2, 697--714 (2013; Zbl 1296.53059)]. Assuming \(C^{2,\alpha}\) regularity of the boundary of \(\mathcal{C}\), the authors show that for an isoperimetric region \(E\subset \mathcal{C}\), either the closure of \(\partial E\cap\,\mathrm{int}\,(\mathcal{C})\) is connected, or \(E\subset K\times \mathbb{R}\) is a slab. They show that the only isoperimetric regions of sufficiently small volume inside a convex prism are geodesic balls centered at the vertices with tangent cone of the smallest possible solid angle. In the second part of the paper, the authors apply their previous results for a right convex cylinder to obtain properties of the isoperimetric profile of cylindrically bounded convex bodies. The final result, Theorem 4.13, implies that translations of isoperimetric regions of unbounded volume converge in the Hausdorff distance to a half-slab in the asymptotic half-cylinder.