The one-dimensional equilibrium shape of a crystal
Mathematical Physics
2025-01-15 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Differential Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
Optimizing the free energy under a mass constraint may generate a convex crystal subject to assumptions on the potential , . The general problem classically attributed to Almgren is to infer if this is the case assuming the sub-level sets of g are convex. The theorem proven in the paper is that in one dimension the answer is positive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.07900,
title = {The one-dimensional equilibrium shape of a crystal},
author = {Emanuel Indrei},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07900},
year = {2025}
}