Axisymmetry conjecture for magnetic ground-state minimizers
Axisymmetry conjecture for magnetic ground-state minimizers
Let be the strength of a constant magnetic field, and let be a domain minimizing the first eigenvalue among the admissible domains of fixed volume. The magnetic field points along the -axis. Axisymmetry conjecture. For any , the minimizer is axisymmetric with respect to the -axis. This is suggested by numerical optimization, including computations without an imposed symmetry assumption; whether all minimizers have this symmetry remains open.
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Matthias Baur, “Optimizing the ground state energy of the three-dimensional magnetic Dirichlet Laplacian with constant magnetic field”, arXiv:2504.21597 (2025).
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