Symmetry-breaking conjecture for the two-point variational problem

Let qic=δζ+δζq_{\mathrm{ic}}=\delta_{-\zeta}+\delta_{\zeta} for ζ>0\zeta>0, set m=1\mathfrak{m}=1 and ξ1=0\xi_1=0, and consider the variational problem in which TT and these data are fixed. Symmetry-breaking conjecture. There exists an αcR\alpha_{\mathrm{c}}\in\mathbb{R}, depending on TT and ζ\zeta, such that for every α1>αc\alpha_1>\alpha_{\mathrm{c}}, the variational problem has exactly two minimizers, which are reflections of one another about x=0x=0. 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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