Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

D. Mazzoleni - R. Moraschi - B. Ruffini

Nonexistence for screened Hartree energies

created by mazzoleni on 15 Jun 2026

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Inserted: 15 jun 2026
Last Updated: 15 jun 2026

Year: 2026

Abstract:

We develop an anti-concentration method for volume-constrained nonlocal shape optimization. Precisely, we apply it to prove the nonexistence of minimizers of an optimal design problem driven by a Hartree-type energy in the large mass regimes. The proof refines and extends the ideas from (Lu-Otto, CPAM 2014), where Lu and Otto dealt with nonexistence of minimizers for the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizsaecker energy. We also establish the asymptotic behavior of the associated isoperimetric profile of the energy.


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