The structure of singularities in -minimizing networks in R^ 2

DOI10.2140/PJM.1991.149.201MaRDI QIDQ910346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Conger, Kenneth Hodges, A. B. Levy, Rajiv Kochar, Lisa Kuklinski, Zia Mahmood, Karen von Haam, M. Alfaro

Publication date 1991

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1991.149.201

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic integrandlength-minimizing networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other problems of combinatorial convexity (52A37) Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35)

Review text

It is well known that length-minimizing networks in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 2\) consist of segments meeting only in threes. This paper considers uniformly convex norms \(\Phi\) more general than length. The first theorem says that for any such smooth \(\Phi\), minimizing networks still meet only in threes. The second theorem shows that for some piecewiese smooth \(\Phi\), segments can meet in fours (although never in fives or more).

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