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Elastic energy of a convex body

Optimization and Control 2014-07-01 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper a Blaschke-Santal\'o diagram involving the area, the perimeter and the elastic energy of planar convex bodies is considered. More precisely we give a description of set E:={(x,y)R2,x=4πA(Ω)P(Ω)2,y=E(Ω)P(Ω)2π2,Ω\mboxconvex},\mathcal{E}:=\left\{(x,y)\in \R^2, x=\frac{4\pi A(\Omega)}{P(\Omega)^2},y=\frac{E(\Omega)P(\Omega)}{2\pi^2},\,\Omega\mbox{convex} \right\}, where AA is the area, PP is the perimeter and EE is the elastic energy, that is a Willmore type energy in the plane. In order to do this, we investigate the following shape optimization problem: minΩC{E(Ω)+μA(Ω)},\min_{\Omega\in\mathcal{C}}\{E(\Omega)+\mu A(\Omega)\}, where C\mathcal{C} is the class of convex bodies with fixed perimeter and μ0\mu\ge 0 is a parameter. Existence, regularity and geometric properties of solutions to this minimum problem are shown.

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@article{arxiv.1406.7305,
  title  = {Elastic energy of a convex body},
  author = {Chiara Bianchini and Antoine Henrot and Takeo Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7305},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Equipe Equations aux derivees partielles