Complete classification conjecture for double bubbles in the three standard tori

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Let the three tori be the standard cubic torus and the special FCC and BCC tori considered in the paper. Let the catalog in Figure 1 list the ten candidate double bubbles, and let the Hexagonal Honeycomb in Figure 4 be the additional candidate for the special rhombic-prism torus.

Complete-classification conjecture. The double bubbles of Figure 1 together with the Hexagonal Honeycomb of Figure 4 comprise the complete set of area-minimizing double bubbles for all three tori.

This is a global classification claim based on the computed phase diagrams and the displayed candidates. The source does not provide a proof.

References

Primary source

Miguel Carrión-Álvarez, Joseph Corneli, Genevieve Walsh and Shabnam Beheshti, “Double bubbles in the 3-torus”, arXiv:math/0208120 (2002).

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