Spectral minimal partitions for a family of tori

DOI10.1080/10586458.2016.1183154zbMATH Open1379.49039arXiv1503.04545OpenAlexW1836511966MaRDI QIDQ4595623FDOQ4595623

Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël, Corentin Léna

Publication date: 5 December 2017

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study partitions of the rectangular two-dimensional flat torus of length 1 and width b into k domains, with b a parameter in (0, 1] and k an integer. We look for partitions which minimize the energy, definedas the largest first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian on the domains of the partition. We are inparticular interested in the way these minimal partitions change when b is varied. We present herean improvement, when k is odd, of the results on transition values of b established by B. Helffer andT. Hoffmann-Ostenhof (2014) and state a conjecture on those transition values. We establishan improved upper bound of the minimal energy by explicitly constructing hexagonal tilings of thetorus. These tilings are close to the partitions obtained from a systematic numerical study based on an optimization algorithm adapted from B. Bourdin, D. Bucur, and {'E}. Oudet (2009). These numerical results also support our conjecture concerning the transition values and give betterestimates near those transition values.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04545

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zbMATH Keywords

shape optimizationfinite difference methodminimal partitionsprojected gradient algorithmDirichlet-Laplacian eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05)

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