Convergence of inflated dynamic Laplacian minimisers to material solutions

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Let MM be the spatial manifold, let [0,τ]×M[0,\tau]\times M be the spacetime manifold M0\mathbb{M}_0, and for each a0a\geq 0 let SaS_a and HaH_a denote the Sobolev and Cheeger constants on M0\mathbb{M}_0 with respect to the metric G0,aG_{0,a}. Let sDs^D and hDh^D be the corresponding dynamic Sobolev and Cheeger constants on MM. For each aa, let Fa:M0RF_a:\mathbb{M}_0\to\mathbb{R} minimise SaS_a and let \reflectbox{\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{\mathbb L}}_a minimise HaH_a; let f:MRf:M\to\mathbb{R} minimise sDs^D and let Γ\Gamma minimise hDh^D. Convergence conjecture.

limaSa=sDandlimaHa=hD.\lim_{a\to\infty} S_a=s^D \quad\text{and}\quad \lim_{a\to\infty} H_a=h^D.

Moreover,

limaFa(t,x)=f(x)\lim_{a\to\infty}F_a(t,x)=f(x)

for all t[0,τ]t\in[0,\tau] and xMx\in M, and

\lim_{a\to\infty}\reflectbox{\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{$\mathbb L$}}_a=[0,\tau]\times\Gamma.

The conjecture asserts that, as the parameter linking the time fibres tends to infinity, the spacetime minimisers become completely material and recover the corresponding spatial minimisers. The preceding proposition establishes that Ha=SaH_a=S_a and that these quantities are nondecreasing and bounded above by the spatial constants, but the stated limiting convergence is not established in the supplied text.

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Jason Atnip, Gary Froyland and Péter Koltai, “An inflated dynamic Laplacian to track the emergence and disappearance of semi-material coherent sets”, arXiv:2403.10360 (2026).

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