Uniqueness conjecture for the four-region sandwich cluster

Let C(1,1,1,1)\mathcal C(1,1,1,1) denote the stationary planar clusters with four regions of area 11, and let a sandwich-topology cluster be one with the topology described in the source. Sandwich uniqueness conjecture. Up to isometries, there is a unique stationary cluster EC(1,1,1,1)\boldsymbol E\in\mathcal C(1,1,1,1) with the sandwich topology. In such a cluster, the regions E1E_1 and E3E_3 are isometric to E2E_2 and E4E_4, respectively. The paper proves that equal-area minimizing clusters have sandwich topology, but this stronger uniqueness and symmetry statement is presented as conjectural.

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Emanuele Paolini and Andrea Tamagnini, “Minimal clusters of four planar regions with the same area”, arXiv:1612.00178 (2018).

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