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Two examples of minimal Cheeger sets in the plane

Analysis of PDEs 2018-08-30 v4

Abstract

We construct two minimal Cheeger sets in the Euclidean plane, i.e. unique minimizers of the ratio "perimeter over area" among their own measurable subsets. The first one gives a counterexample to the so-called weak regularity property of Cheeger sets, as its perimeter does not coincide with the 11-dimensional Hausdorff measure of its topological boundary. The second one is a kind of porous set, whose boundary is not locally a graph at many of its points, yet it is a weakly regular open set admitting a unique (up to vertical translations) non--parametric solution to the prescribed mean curvature equation, in the extremal case corresponding to the capillarity for perfectly wetting fluids in zero gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1709.00851,
  title  = {Two examples of minimal Cheeger sets in the plane},
  author = {Gian Paolo Leonardi and Giorgio Saracco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.00851},
  year   = {2018}
}

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19 pages, 6 figures