Conjecture on phase portraits of minimizing double bubbles on flat tori

Let A0A2A1A_0\geq A_2\geq A_1 be areas, and let a flat torus have area A0+A1+A2A_0+A_1+A_2. A non-tiling minimizing double bubble is a perimeter-minimizing double bubble enclosing areas A1A_1 and A2A_2 that does not tile the torus. Phase-portrait conjecture. The non-tiling minimizing double bubbles enclosing A1,A2A_1,A_2 on this torus are the same as the minimizing double bubbles enclosing A1,A2A_1,A_2 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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