An elementary proof for the double bubble problem in ^1 norm

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-01008-9MaRDI QIDQ2105913zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Parker Duncan, Rory O'Dwyer, Eviatar B. Procaccia

Publication date 8 December 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07767

zbMATH Keywords

double bubble problemisoperimetryoptimizationtaxicab metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20)

Abstract: We study the double bubble problem with perimeter taken with respect to the $el{l}_1$ norm on $mathbb{R}^2$. We give an elementary proof for the existence of minimizing sets for any volume ratio parameter $0<alphale1$ by direct comparison to a small family of parameterized sets. By simple analysis on this family we obtain the minimizing shapes found in Morgan et al 1998.

Review text

The double bubble theorem states that, for any two volumes, the standard double bubble is the minimum area shape that encloses them; no other set of surfaces encloses the same amount of space with less total area. The proof of the double bubble theorem was given in \(\mathbb R^2\) and \(\mathbb R^3\) by \textit{M. Hutchings} et al. [Ann. Math. (2) 155, No. 2, 459--489 (2002; Zbl 1009.53007)]. In this paper, the authors study the anisotropic version of the double bubble theorem in \(\mathbb R^2\) in the case that the perimeter is associated to the \(l^1\) norm. To be precise, for any given simple curve \(\lambda:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb R^2 \), where \(\lambda(t)=(x(t),y(t))\), the \(l^1\)-lenght of the curve is defined by setting \[ \rho(\lambda):=\sup_{P\in\mathcal P}\sum_{i=1}^N\Bigl(|x(t_{i+1})-x({t_i})|+|y(t_{i+1})-y({t_i})|\Bigr), \] where \(\mathcal P\) denotes the family of partition of \([a,b]\), \[ \mathcal{P}=\left\{P=\{t_1,\dots,t_N\}, \mbox{ such that }a\leq t_1\leq\dots t_N\leq b\right\}. \] The authors give an elementary proof for the existence of minimizing sets for any volume ratio parameter \(0<\alpha\leq 1\) by direct comparison to a small family of parameterized sets. By simple analysis on this family, they obtain the minimizing shapes found in [\textit{F. Morgan} et al., J. Geom. Anal. 8, No. 1, 97--115 (1998; Zbl 0934.49024)].

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