Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

M. Novaga - E. Paolini - E. Stepanov

On the total surface area of potato packings

created by paolini on 11 Nov 2024
modified by novaga on 04 Mar 2025

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Accepted Paper

Inserted: 11 nov 2024
Last Updated: 4 mar 2025

Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
Year: 2024

ArXiv: 2412.10905 PDF

Abstract:

We prove that if we fill without gaps a bag with infinitely many potatoes, in such a way that they touch each other in few points, then the total surface area of the potatoes must be infinite. In this context potatoes are measurable subsets of the Euclidean space, the bag is any open set of the same space. As we show, this result also holds in a fairly general context of doubling (even locally) metric measure spaces satisfying Poincaré inequality, in particular in smooth Riemannian manifolds and even in some sub-Riemannian spaces.


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