Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

S. Nardulli

The isoperimetric profile of a smooth Riemannian manifold for small volumes

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Published Paper

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Journal: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
Volume: 36
Number: 2
Pages: 111-131
Year: 2009
Doi: 10.1007/s10455-008-9152-6

Abstract:

We define a new class of submanifolds called pseudo-bubbles, defined by an equation weaker than constancy of mean curvature. We show that in a neighborhood of each point of a Riemannian manifold, there is a unique family of concentric pseudo-bubbles which contains all the pseudo-bubbles C 2,α -close to small spheres. This permit us to reduce the isoperimetric problem for small volumes to a variational problem in finite dimension.