Constant-energy minimal spectral partitions for symmetric planar domains

Let Ω\Omega be a disk, a square, or an equilateral triangle, let kk be the number of cells, and let Lk,p(Ω)\mathfrak L_{k,p}(\Omega) denote the optimal pp-norm energy of a kk-partition. Symmetric-domain partition conjecture. The following numerical observations are conjectured: (i) if Ω\Omega is a disk and k{2,3,4,5}k\in\{2,3,4,5\}, then Lk,p(Ω)\mathfrak L_{k,p}(\Omega) is constant with respect to pp, and an optimal partition consists of kk angular sectors of opening 2π/k2\pi/k; (ii) if Ω\Omega is a square and k{2,4}k\in\{2,4\}, then Lk,p(Ω)\mathfrak L_{k,p}(\Omega) is constant with respect to pp, with a minimal 22-partition given by two equal rectangles or two equal right-isosceles triangles, and with the minimal 44-partition composed of four squares; (iii) if Ω\Omega is an equilateral triangle and k=n(n+1)/2k=n(n+1)/2 with n2n\geq2, then Lk,p(Ω)\mathfrak L_{k,p}(\Omega) is constant with respect to pp, and a minimal kk-partition consists of 33 equal quadrilaterals, 3(n2)3(n-2) pentagons, and (n2)(n3)/2(n-2)(n-3)/2 regular hexagons. These are numerical observations, and the source relates the third case to the honeycomb conjecture; no proof of the full collection is supplied.

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Virginie Bonnaillie-Noel and Beniamin Bogosel, “Minimal Partitions for p-norms of Eigenvalues”, arXiv:1612.07296 (2018).

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