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Free-Boundary Monotonicity for Almost-Minimizers of the Relative Perimeter

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-09-16 v2

Abstract

Let EΩE \subset \Omega be a local almost-minimizer of the relative perimeter in the open set ΩRn\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{n}. We prove a free-boundary monotonicity inequality for EE at a point xΩx\in \partial\Omega, under a geometric property called ``visibility'', that Ω\Omega is required to satisfy in a neighborhood of xx. Incidentally, the visibility property is satisfied by a considerably large class of Lipschitz and possibly non-smooth domains. Then, we prove the existence of the density of the relative perimeter of EE at xx, as well as the fact that any blow-up of EE at xx is necessarily a perimeter-minimizing cone within the tangent cone to Ω\Omega at xx.

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@article{arxiv.2407.05039,
  title  = {Free-Boundary Monotonicity for Almost-Minimizers of the Relative Perimeter},
  author = {Gian Paolo Leonardi and Giacomo Vianello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.05039},
  year   = {2025}
}