Isoperimetric and stable sets for log-concave perturbations of Gaussian measures
Abstract
Let be an open half-space or slab in endowed with a perturbation of the Gaussian measure of the form , where and is a smooth concave function depending only on the signed distance from the linear hyperplane parallel to . In this work we follow a variational approach to show that half-spaces perpendicular to uniquely minimize the weighted perimeter in among sets enclosing the same weighted volume. The main ingredient of the proof is the characterization of half-spaces parallel or perpendicular to as the unique stable sets with small singular set and null weighted capacity. Our methods also apply for , which produces in particular the classification of stable sets in Gauss space and a new proof of the Gaussian isoperimetric inequality. Finally, we use optimal transport to study the weighted minimizers when the perturbation term is concave and possibly non-smooth.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1403.4510,
title = {Isoperimetric and stable sets for log-concave perturbations of Gaussian measures},
author = {César Rosales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4510},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
final version, to appear in Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces