On the critical exponent in an isoperimetric inequality for chords

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2007.03.067zbMATH Open1209.35090arXivmath-ph/0703020OpenAlexW2009787312MaRDI QIDQ715867FDOQ715867

Authors: Pavel Exner, Martin Fraas, Evans M. II Harrell 

Publication date: 19 April 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The problem of maximizing the $L^p$ norms of chords connecting points on a closed curve separated by arclength $u$ arises in electrostatic and quantum--mechanical problems. It is known that among all closed curves of fixed length, the unique maximizing shape is the circle for $1leple2$, but this is not the case for sufficiently large values of $p$. Here we determine the critical value $p_c(u)$ of $p$ above which the circle is not a local maximizer finding, in particular, that $p_c(frac12L)=frac52$. This corrects a claim made in cite{EHL}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0703020

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15)

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