Published Paper

Inserted: 11 mar 2021
Last Updated: 2 jul 2022

Journal: J. Geom. Anal.
Volume: 32
Year: 2022
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-021-00737-7

Abstract:

We consider Riesz-type nonlocal interaction energies over convex polygons. We prove the analog of the Riesz inequality in this discrete setting for triangles and quadrilaterals, and obtain that among all $N$-gons with fixed area, the nonlocal energy is maximized by a regular polygon, for $N=3,4$. Further we derive necessary first-order stationarity conditions for a polygon with respect to a restricted class of variations, which will then be used to characterize regular $N$-gons, for $N=3,4$, as solutions to an overdetermined free boundary problem.

Keywords: shape optimization, Riesz's rearrangement inequality, polygons, overdetermined problem, Polya and Szego conjecture

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