Regularity for Minimizers of a Planar Partitioning Problem with Cusps

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Authors Michael Novack

Publication date 19 May 2023

Abstract: We study the regularity of minimizers for a variant of the soap bubble cluster problem: �egin{align*} min sum_{ell=0}^N c_{ell} P( S_ell),, end{align*} where $c_{e}ll>0$, among partitions $S_0,dots,S_N,G$ of $mathbb{R}^2$ satisfying $|G|leqdelta$ and an area constraint on each $S_{e}ll$ for $1leqellleqN$. If $delta>0$, we prove that for any minimizer, each $partial{S}_{ell}$ is $C^{1,1}$ and consists of finitely many curves of constant curvature. Any such curve contained in $partial{S}_{ell}cappartial{S}_m$ or $partial{S}_{e}llcappartialG$ can only terminate at a point in $partialGcappartial{S}_{e}llcappartial{S}_m$ at which $G$ has a cusp. We also analyze a similar problem on the unit ball $B$ with a trace constraint instead of an area constraint and obtain analogous regularity up to $partialB$. Finally, in the case of equal coefficients $c_{e}ll$, we completely characterize minimizers on the ball for small $delta$: they are perturbations of minimizers for $delta=0$ in which the triple junction singularities, including those possibly on $partialB$, are ``wetted" by $G$.

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