Generalized elastica problems under area constraint

DOI10.4310/MRL.2018.V25.N2.A9zbMATH Open1401.49062arXiv1606.01569OpenAlexW2963988497MaRDI QIDQ1990267FDOQ1990267

Vincenzo Ferone, Carlo Nitsch, Bernd Kawohl

Publication date: 25 October 2018

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It was recently proved that the elastic energy $E(gamma)=frac12in{t}_{g}ammakapp{a}^{2}ds$ of a closed curve $gamma$ with curvature $kappa$ has a minimizer among all plane, simple, regular and closed curves of given enclosed area $A(gamma)$, and that the minimum is attained only for circles. Here we show under which hypothesis the result can be extended to other functionals involving the curvature. As an example we show that the optimal shape remains a circle for the $p$-elastic energy $in{t}_{g}amma|kappa{|}^{p}ds$, whenever $p>1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01569

zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetric inequalityEuler elastica

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Inequalities and extremum problems in real or complex geometry (51M16)

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