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On the regularity of stationary points of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem

Analysis of PDEs 2014-05-20 v1

Abstract

In this article we establish C3,αC^{3,\alpha}-regularity of the reduced boundary of stationary points of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem in a domain ΩRn\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n. In particular, stationary points satisfy the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation classically on the reduced boundary. Moreover, we show that the singular set has zero (n1)(n-1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure. This complements the results in Choksi & Sternberg, in which the Euler-Lagrange equation was derived under the assumption of C2C^2-regularity of the topological boundary and the results in Sternberg & Topaloglu in which the authors assume local minimality. In case Ω\Omega has non-empty boundary, we show that stationary points meet the boundary of Ω\Omega orthogonally in a weak sense, unless they have positive distance to it.

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@article{arxiv.1405.4550,
  title  = {On the regularity of stationary points of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem},
  author = {Dorian Goldman and Alexander Volkmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4550},
  year   = {2014}
}

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