Conjecture on phase portraits of minimizing double bubbles on flat tori
Conjecture on phase portraits of minimizing double bubbles on flat tori
Let be areas, and let a flat torus have area . A non-tiling minimizing double bubble is a perimeter-minimizing double bubble enclosing areas and that does not tile the torus. Phase-portrait conjecture. The non-tiling minimizing double bubbles enclosing on this torus are the same as the minimizing double bubbles enclosing on the infinite cylinder. Consequently, the phase portrait of any flat two-torus can be obtained from the phase portrait of any flat two-torus of larger area, or from the phase portrait of the infinite cylinder; in particular, tori of equal areas have identical phase portraits. This conjecture asserts a reduction from flat-torus phase portraits to the infinite-cylinder problem. The source presents it as a conjecture and gives no resolution.
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Joseph Corneli, Paul Holt, George Lee, Nicholas Leger, Eric Schoenfeld and Benjamin Steinhurst, “The Double Bubble Problem on the Flat Two-Torus”, arXiv:math/0308262 (2003).
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