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On a Cheeger--Kohler-Jobin inequality

Analysis of PDEs 2023-03-07 v3

Abstract

We discuss the minimization of a Kohler-Jobin type scale-invariant functional among open, convex, bounded sets, namely minT2(Ω)1N+2h1(Ω)\min T_2(\Omega) ^{\frac{1}{N+2}}h_1(\Omega) among open convex bounded sets ΩRN\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N, where T2(Ω)T_2(\Omega) denotes the torsional rigidity of a set Ω\Omega and h1(Ω)h_1(\Omega) its Cheeger constant. We prove the existence of an optimal set and we conjecture that the ball is the unique minimizer. We provide a sufficient condition for the validity of the conjecture, and an application of the conjecture to prove a quantitative inequality for the Cheeger constant. We also show lack of existence for the problem above among several other classes of sets. As a side result we discuss the equivalence of the several definitions of Cheeger constants present in the literature and show a quite general class of sets for which those are equivalent.

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@article{arxiv.1806.01549,
  title  = {On a Cheeger--Kohler-Jobin inequality},
  author = {Ilaria Lucardesi and Dario Mazzoleni and Berardo Ruffini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.01549},
  year   = {2023}
}