Symmetry-breaking conjecture for the two-point variational problem
Symmetry-breaking conjecture for the two-point variational problem
Let for , set and , and consider the variational problem in which and these data are fixed. Symmetry-breaking conjecture. There exists an , depending on and , such that for every , the variational problem has exactly two minimizers, which are reflections of one another about . This conjecture formalizes the predicted symmetry breaking for the minimizers and, if true, establishes nonuniqueness in this two-point setting; the supplied text gives no resolution.
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Li-Cheng Tsai, “Integrability in the weak noise theory”, arXiv:2204.00614 (2024).
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