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Least perimeter solutions for a region with fixed mass are sought in ${\mathbb{R}^d}$ on which a density function $\rho(r) = r^p+a$, with $p>0, a>0$, weights both perimeter and mass. On the real line ($d=1$) this is a single interval that…

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