Symmetry-preservation conjecture for small penalization
Let be a domain, let be the prescribed parameter, and let be an optimal configuration. Say that has the same symmetries as when every symmetry of is also a symmetry of . Small- symmetry-preservation conjecture. For any domain and any , there is such that, whenever , every optimal configuration has the same symmetries as . The conjecture concerns symmetry preservation in general, including non-convex domains not covered by the preceding theorem, and remains open.
References
Primary source
S. Chanillo, D. Grieser, M. Imai, K. Kurata and I. Ohnishi, “Symmetry breaking and other phenomena in the optimization of eigenvalues for composite membranes”, arXiv:math/9912116 (2000).
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