A note on Newton's problem of minimal resistance for convex bodies

DOI10.1007/S00526-020-01833-2MaRDI QIDQ2204086zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Plakhov

Publication date 2 October 2020

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01042

zbMATH Keywords

convex geometryminimization in classes of convex functionsNewton's problem of minimal resistance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15)

Abstract: We consider the following problem: minimize the functional $in{t}_{O}megaf(ablau(x)),dx$ in the class of concave functions $u:Omegao[0,M]$, where $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^2$ is a convex body and $M>0$. If $f(x)=1/(1+|x{|}^2)$ and $Omega$ is a circle, the problem is called Newton's problem of least resistance. It is known that the problem admits at least one solution. We prove that if all points of $partialOmega$ are regular and $|x|f(x)/(|y|f(y))o+infty$ as $|x|/|y|o0$ then a solution $u$ to the problem satisfies $ufloo{r}_{partialOmega}=0$. This result proves the conjecture stated in 1993 for Newton's problem.

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