The strip-density classification conjecture

Let R2\mathbb{R}^2 have the strip density, equal to 11 in the strip {y1}\{|y|\leq 1\} and equal to λ>1\lambda>1 outside it. The relevant candidate sets are classified as types (i), (ii), and (iii). Strip-density classification conjecture. There exists a value v0>πv_0>\pi such that the isoperimetric sets are balls of type (i) for areas less than π\pi, sets of type (ii) for areas in [π,v0][\pi,v_0], and sets of type (iii) for areas greater than v0v_0. The source says that the theorem proves everything except the elimination of type (iv), so the stated classification is not established there; no later resolution is supplied.

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Antonio Cañete, Michele Miranda and Davide Vittone, “Some isoperimetric problems in planes with density”, arXiv:0906.1256 (2009).

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