Minimisers of a fractional seminorm and nonlocal minimal surfaces

DOI10.4171/IFB/447zbMATH Open1458.35447arXiv2002.06313OpenAlexW3111824858MaRDI QIDQ2226682FDOQ2226682

Authors: Claudia Bucur, Serena Dipierro, Luca Lombardini, Enrico Valdinoci 

Publication date: 9 February 2021

Published in: Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The recent literature has intensively studied two classes of nonlocal variational problems, namely the ones related to the minimisation of energy functionals that act on functions in suitable Sobolev-Gagliardo spaces, and the ones related to the minimisation of fractional perimeters that act on measurable sets of the Euclidean space. In this article, we relate these two types of variational problems. In particular, we investigate the connection between the nonlocal minimal surfaces and the minimisers of the $W^{s,1}$-seminorm. In particular, we show that a function is a minimiser for the fractional seminorm if and only if its level sets are minimisers for the fractional perimeter, and that the characteristic function of a nonlocal minimal surface is a minimiser for the fractional seminorm; we also provide an existence result for minimisers of the fractional seminorm, an explicit non-uniqueness example for nonlocal minimal surfaces, and a Yin-Yang result describing the full and void patterns of nonlocal minimal surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06313

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zbMATH Keywords

equivalencefractional variational problemsnonlocal minimal surfacesexistence and non-uniqueness results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional derivatives and integrals (26A33) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Equations involving nonlinear operators (general) (47J05)

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