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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 g(0)=0g(0)=0, g0g \ge 0. 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.

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@article{arxiv.2501.07900,
  title  = {The one-dimensional equilibrium shape of a crystal},
  author = {Emanuel Indrei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07900},
  year   = {2025}
}