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Quantitative estimates for the relative isoperimetric problem and its gradient flow outside convex bodies in the plane

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-02 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove three related quantitative results for the relative isoperimetric problem outside a convex body Ω\Omega in the plane: (1) {\L}ojasiewicz estimates and quantitative rigidity for critical points, (2) rates of convergence for the gradient flow, and (3) quantitative stability for minimizers. These results come with explicit constants and optimal exponents/rates, and hold whenever a simple two-dimensional auxiliary variational problem for circular arcs outside of Ω\Omega is nondegenerate. The proofs are inter-related, and in particular, for the first time in the context of isoperimetric problems, a flow approach is used to prove quantitative stability for minimizers.

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@article{arxiv.2508.21198,
  title  = {Quantitative estimates for the relative isoperimetric problem and its gradient flow outside convex bodies in the plane},
  author = {Elena Mäder-Baumdicker and Robin Neumayer and Jiewon Park and Melanie Rupflin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21198},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Added an explicit formula for the non-degeneracy condition in Lemma 3.9