The hyperplane is the only stable, smooth solution to the isoperimetric problem in Gaussian space

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0057-9MaRDI QIDQ744919zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Kharzeev

Publication date 12 October 2015

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7088

zbMATH Keywords

curvature estimateGaussian spacegeometric analysisisoperimetricmean curvatureself-shrinkerstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We study stable smooth solutions to the isoperimetric type problem for a Gaussian weight on Euclidean Space. That is, we study hypersurfaces $Sigm{a}^{n}subsetmathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are second order stable critical points of compact variations that minimize Gaussian weighted area and preserve Gaussian weighted volume. We show that such $Sigma$ satisfy a curvature condition, and derive the Jacobi operator $L$ for the second variation of such $Sigma$. Our first main result is that for non-planar $Sigma$, bounds on the index of $L$, acting on volume preserving variations, gives us that $Sigma$ splits off a linear space. A corollary of this result is that hyperplanes are the only stable smooth complete solutions to this Gaussian isoperimetric type problem, and that there are no hypersurfaces of index one. Finally, we show that for the case of $Sigm{a}^{2}subsetmathbb{R}^3$, there is a gradient decay estimate depending on bounds for the curvature condition and an appropriate area growth bound. This shows that, in the limit as $Roinfty$, stable $(Sigma,partialSigma)subset(B_{2R}(0),partial{B}_{2R}(0))$ with good area growth bounds approach hyperplanes.

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