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We formulate a variational principle for a collection of projectors in an indefinite inner product space. The existence of minimizers is proved in various situations.
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We are interested in the study of local and global minimizers for an energy functional of the type $$ \frac{1}{4} \iint_{\mathbb{R}^{2 N} \setminus \left( \mathbb{R}^N \setminus \Omega \right)^2} |u(x) - u(y)|^2 K(x - y) \, dx dy +…
We prove a relative isoperimetric inequality in the plane, when the perimeter is defined with respect to a convex, positively homogeneous function of degree one, and characterize the minimizers.
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