The plane radial-density conjecture for circles, undularies, and pinched circles

Consider the plane with perimeter density rkr^{k}, where k>1k>-1, and area density rmr^{m}. The relevant candidate isoperimetric curves are circles about the origin, undularies, and pinched circles through the origin.

Plane radial-density conjecture. For k[0,)k\in[0,\infty), the following curves are isoperimetric:

m(k1,k1+1k+1]:the circle about the origin,m(k1+1k+1,k1+k+12k+1):undularies,m[k1+k+12k+1,k]:pinched circles through the origin.\begin{array}{ll} m\in\left(k-1,k-1+\frac{1}{k+1}\right] &: \text{the circle about the origin},\\ m\in\left(k-1+\frac{1}{k+1},k-1+\frac{k+1}{2k+1}\right) &: \text{undularies},\\ m\in\left[k-1+\frac{k+1}{2k+1},k\right] &: \text{pinched circles through the origin}. \end{array}

This fills the area-density range between k1k-1 and kk omitted by the preceding proposition, by transferring the sector transition values through the power change of coordinates. The supplied text does not report a resolution.

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Alexander Díaz, Nate Harman, Sean Howe and David Thompson, “Isoperimetric problems in sectors with density”, arXiv:1012.0450 (2010).

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