On a Cheeger--Kohler-Jobin inequality

Authors Ilaria Lucardesi, Dario Mazzoleni, Berardo Ruffini

Publication date 5 June 2018

Completeness of eigenfunctions and eigenfunction expansions in context of PDEs (35P10) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Functional inequalities, including subadditivity, convexity, etc. (39B62) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05)

Abstract: We discuss the minimization of a Kohler-Jobin type scale-invariant functional among open, convex, bounded sets, namely

m i n T_{2} (O m e g a)^{f r a c 1 N + 2} h_{1} (O m e g a)

among open convex bounded sets

O m e g a s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{N}

, where

T_{2} (O m e g a)

denotes the torsional rigidity of a set

O m e g a

and

h_{1} (O m e g a)

its Cheeger constant. We prove the existence of an optimal set and we conjecture that the ball is the unique minimizer. We provide a sufficient condition for the validity of the conjecture, and an application of the conjecture to prove a quantitative inequality for the Cheeger constant. We also show lack of existence for the problem above among several other classes of sets. As a side result we discuss the equivalence of the several definitions of Cheeger constants present in the literature and show a quite general class of sets for which those are equivalent.

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