The elastica problem under area constraint

DOI10.1007/S00208-015-1284-YzbMATH Open1345.49049arXiv1411.6100OpenAlexW1926479504MaRDI QIDQ303585FDOQ303585

Authors: Vincenzo Ferone, Carlo Nitsch, Bernd Kawohl 

Publication date: 22 August 2016

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the elastic energy $E(gamma)$ of a closed curve $gamma$ has a minimizer among all plane simple regular closed curves of given enclosed area $A(gamma)$, and that the minimum is attained for a circle. The proof is of a geometric nature and deforms parts of $gamma$ in a finite number of steps to construct some related convex sets with smaller energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6100

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zbMATH Keywords

minimizationelastic energyarea constraintclosed curves

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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