Some geometric relations for equipotential curves
Abstract
Let be a harmonic function that solves an exterior Dirichlet problem. If all the level sets of are smooth Jordan curves, then there are several geometric inequalities that correlate the curvature with the magnitude of gradient on each level set ("equipotential curve"). One of such inequalities is , where denotes average over a level set, weighted by the arc length of the Jordan curve. We prove such a geometric inequality by constructing an entropy for each level set , and showing that such an entropy is convex in . The geometric inequality for and then follows from the convexity and monotonicity of our entropy formula. A few other geometric relations for equipotential curves are also built on a convexity argument.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.11669,
title = {Some geometric relations for equipotential curves},
author = {Yajun Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11669},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
(v1) 12 pages, 1 TikZ figure; (v2) 14 pages, 1 TikZ figure. New results added. Typos corrected; (v3) 14 pages, 1 table, 1 TikZ figure. Revised according to reviewer's comments