Sharp stability inequalities for planar double bubbles

DOI10.4171/IFB/384MaRDI QIDQ1687826zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marco Cicalese, Gian Paolo Leonardi, Francesco Maggi

Publication date 4 January 2018

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3698

zbMATH Keywords

double-bubbleisoperimetric problemspartitioning problemsstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spherical harmonics (33C55) Sensitivity, stability, well-posedness (49K40) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20)

Abstract: In this paper we address the global stability problem for double-bubbles in the plane. This is accomplished by combining the "improved convergence theorem" for planar clusters developed in arXiv:1409.6652 with an ad hoc analysis of the problem, which addresses the delicate interaction between the (possible) dislocation of singularities and the multiple-volumes constraint.

Review text

After the breakthrough paper [\textit{N. Fusco} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 168, No. 3, 941--980 (2008; Zbl 1187.52009)], several authors achieved analogous stability estimates for problems in calculus of variations of isoperimetric type. A valuable up to date survey is [\textit{N. Fusco}, Bull. Math. Sci. 5, No. 3, 517--607 (2015; Zbl 1327.49076)]. The first two authors of the paper under review have achieved a different proof of the sharp quantitative isoperimetric inequality based on a selection principle (see [\textit{M. Cicalese} and \textit{G. P. Leonardi}, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 206, No. 2, 617--643 (2012; Zbl 1257.49045)]). In [\textit{F. Maggi} et al., Indiana Univ. Math. J. 65, No. 6, 1979--2050 (2016; Zbl 1381.49051)], an improved convergence theorem for \(2\)-clusters in the planar case was established. Here, a sharp quantitative estimate for the so called ``double-bubble isoperimetric problem in the planar case is proved. The proof is based precisely on the above mentioned improved convergence theorem for \(2\)-clusters, a selection principle and an ad hoc analysis of the problem involving an expansion in spherical harmonics.

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