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Nonlocal minimal clusters in the plane

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-24 v3

Abstract

We prove existence of partitions of an open set Ω\Omega with a given number of phases, which minimize the sum of the fractional perimeters of all the phases, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In two dimensions we show that, if the fractional parameter ss is sufficiently close to 11, the only singular minimal cone, that is, the only minimal partition invariant by dilations and with a singular point, is given by three half-lines meeting at 120120 degrees. In the case of a weighted sum of fractional perimeters, we show that there exists a unique minimal cone with three phases.

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@article{arxiv.1910.03429,
  title  = {Nonlocal minimal clusters in the plane},
  author = {Annalisa Cesaroni and Matteo Novaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03429},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages

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