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Stability and minimality for a nonlocal variational problem


I will discuss the local minimality of certain configurations for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem used to model microphase separation in diblock copolymer melts. I will show that critical configurations with positive second variation are local minimizers of the nonlocal area functional and, in fact, satisfy a quantitative isoperimetric inequality with respect to sets that are close in $L^1$. As a byproduct of the quantitative estimate, one gets new results concerning periodic minimal surfaces and the global and local minimality of certain configurations.

http://cvgmt.sns.it/seminar/409/

When
Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:30am – 8:30am Coordinated Universal Time