Classification conjecture for double bubbles in radial log-convex density

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Let N1N\geq 1, and let RN\mathbb{R}^N have a smooth, radial, log-convex density. For prescribed volumes V1V_1 and V2V_2, consider a perimeter-minimizing double bubble. A bubble inside a bubble is the configuration in which one bubble is enclosed by the other, while a standard double bubble is the usual adjacent two-bubble configuration.

Higher-dimensional double-bubble classification conjecture. A perimeter-minimizing double bubble is either

(i) the bubble inside a bubble, for example when V1 is small and V2 is large,\text{(i) the bubble inside a bubble, for example when }V_1\text{ is small and }V_2\text{ is large,}

or

(ii) the standard double bubble, for example when V2 is close to V1.\text{(ii) the standard double bubble, for example when }V_2\text{ is close to }V_1.

Numerical experiments in dimensions two and three motivate this classification, as an analogue of the one-dimensional double-interval/triple-interval alternatives. The conjecture does not address uniqueness or the transition between the two configurations.

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Eliot Bongiovanni, Leonardo Di Giosia, Alejandro Diaz, Jahangir Habib, Arjun Kakkar, Lea Kenigsberg, Dylanger Pittman, Nat Sothanaphan and Weitao Zhu, “Double Bubbles on the Real Line with Log-Convex Density”, arXiv:1708.03289 (2018).

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