Published Paper

Inserted: 6 may 2022
Last Updated: 21 sep 2024

Journal: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Pages: 69
Year: 2024
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-024-02039-y

Abstract:

We obtain a full resolution result for minimizers in the exterior isoperimetric problem with respect to a compact obstacle in the large volume regime $v\to\infty$. This is achieved by the study of a Plateau-type problem with free boundary (both on the compact obstacle and at infinity) which is used to identify the first obstacle-dependent term (called isoperimetric residue) in the energy expansion, as $v\to\infty$, of the exterior isoperimetric problem. A crucial tool in the analysis of isoperimetric residues is a new "mesoscale flatness criterion'' for hypersurfaces with bounded mean curvature, which we obtain as a development of ideas originating in the theory of minimal surfaces with isolated singularities.

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