The cubical minimizers conjecture for the relative isoperimetric problem

Let [0,1]n[0,1]^n be the unit cube in Rn\mathbb{R}^n, and let a cubical subset be a compact subset of [0,1]n[0,1]^n whose boundary is contained in finitely many hyperplanes with outer normal vectors in {±e1,,±en}\{\pm e_1,\dots,\pm e_n\}, where e1,,ene_1,\dots,e_n is the standard basis. For V[0,12]V\in[0,\frac12], consider the relative isoperimetric problem of minimizing the perimeter inside the cube among cubical subsets of volume VV. The cubical minimizers conjecture. Up to isometries of [0,1]n[0,1]^n and sets of measure 00, the minimizers are of the form

[0,a]m×[0,1]nm[0,a]^m\times[0,1]^{n-m}

for some a[0,12]a\in[0,\frac12] and m{1,,n}m\in\{1,\dots,n\}. This is the cubical analogue of the spheres-tubes-slabs conjecture. The conjecture is presented as an open problem; the supplied text does not give a resolution status.

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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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