The spheres-tubes-slabs conjecture for the relative isoperimetric problem in the cube
The spheres-tubes-slabs conjecture for the relative isoperimetric problem in the cube
Let be the unit cube in with the Euclidean metric. For a measurable set of locally finite perimeter, let denote its -dimensional Lebesgue measure and let denote the -dimensional Hausdorff measure of the essential boundary of away from . For , consider
Here is the closed ball of radius in centered at the origin. The spheres-tubes-slabs conjecture. The minimizers for this relative isoperimetric problem, up to isometries of and sets of measure , are of the form
for some and . This conjecture describes the expected minimizers in the cube: spherical pieces, cylindrical tubes, and slabs. The case is known in all dimensions, but the full conjecture remains open in dimensions .
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Gregory R. Chambers and Lawrence Mouillé, “On the relative isoperimetric problem for the cube”, arXiv:2302.04382 (2024).
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