The shortest enclosure of three connected areas in R^ 2

MaRDI QIDQ1890633zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christopher Cox, Lisa Harrison, Michael Hutchings, Susan Kim, Janette Light, Andrew Mauer, Meg Tilton

Publication date 22 October 1995

Published in Real Analysis Exchange (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

enclose and separate three areasstandard triple bubble

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40)

Review text

In the present paper the authors prove that the ``standard triple bubble is the shortest way to enclose and separate three areas \(A_ 1\), \(A_ 2\), \(A_ 3\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\), assuming that the enclosed regions and the exterior region are connected.

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