Equality conjecture for the Brunn–Minkowski inequality for the Bernoulli constant

Fix l(0,1)l\in(0,1) and let Ω0,Ω1\Omega_0,\Omega_1 be bounded convex domains in RN\mathbb R^N. For t(0,1)t\in(0,1) define

Ωt=(1t)Ω0+tΩ1.\Omega_t=(1-t)\Omega_0+t\Omega_1.

Let Λ(Ω)\Lambda(\Omega) denote the Bernoulli constant associated with a domain Ω\Omega. The Brunn–Minkowski inequality is

Λ(Ωt)(1t)Λ(Ω0)+tΛ(Ω1).\Lambda(\Omega_t)\geq(1-t)\Lambda(\Omega_0)+t\Lambda(\Omega_1).

Brunn–Minkowski equality conjecture. Equality holds if and only if Ω0\Omega_0 and Ω1\Omega_1 are homothetic. This is the equality case left open for the Brunn–Minkowski inequality for the Bernoulli constant. The source also mentions, separately, open questions concerning comparison with balls of equal mean width and uniqueness at λ=Λ(Ω)\lambda=\Lambda(\Omega), but these are not part of this conjecture.

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Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Maria Gualdani and Henrik Shahgholian, “A discrete Bernoulli free boundary problem”, arXiv:1204.6578 (2012).

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