Regularity results for an optimal design problem with lower order terms

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Abstract: We study the regularity of the interface for optimal energy configurations of functionals involving bulk energies with an additional perimeter penalization of the interface. It is allowed the dependence on (x,u) for the bulk energy. For a minimal configuration (E,u), the H"{o}lder continuity of u is well known. We give an estimate for the singular set of the boundary partialE. Namely we show that the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set is strictly smaller than n−1.


The authors consider the functional \[ \mathcal{F}(E, u; \Omega) = \int_\Omega [F(x, u, \nabla u) + \chi_E G(x, u, \nabla u)]\, \mathrm{d}x + P(E, \Omega), \] where \(u\in H^1(\Omega)\) and \(\chi_E\) is the characteristic function of a set \(E\subset\Omega\) of finite perimeter, and the density energies \(F, G\) satisfy suitable Lipschitz regularity and ellipticity assumptions (cf. (1.3)--(1.7)). This formulation encompasses several functionals studied in the past. It is well-known that for some \(\Lambda\) sufficiently big, the minimizers of the volume-constrained problem \[ \inf \left \{\, \mathcal{F}(E, v; \Omega)\,:\, |E|=d \in(0, \Omega)\,\right\} \] among finite-perimeter subsets \(E\) of \(\Omega\) (and \(v\in u_0 + H^1(\Omega)\)) are also minimizers of the penalized problem \[ \inf \mathcal{F}(E, v; \Omega) + \Lambda\big||E|-d\big| \] among all finite-perimeter subsets of \(\Omega\). The authors prove some regularity properties on minimizers of the penalized problem. Hence, as corollary, regularity properties of minimizers of the constrained problem follow. Namely, see Theorem 1, there exists a relatively open set \(\Gamma\subset \partial E\) that is a \(C^{1,\mu}\) hypersurface for all \(\mu \in (0, 1/2)\), and the singular set \(\partial E \setminus \Gamma\) has Hausdorff dimension strictly smaller than \(n-1\).



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