A new isoperimetric inequality for the elasticae
A new isoperimetric inequality for the elasticae
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一种新的弹性等周不等式
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2014
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通讯作者:
A. Henrot
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作者:
D. Bucur;A. Henrot
For a smooth curve $gamma$, we define its elastic energy as $E(gamma)= frac 12 int_{gamma} k^2 (s) ds$ where $k(s)$ is the curvature. The main purpose of the paper is to prove that among all smooth, simply connected, bounded open sets of prescribed area in $mathbb{R}^2$, the disc has the boundary with the least elastic energy. In other words, for any bounded simply connected domain $Omega$, the following isoperimetric inequality holds: $E^2(partial Omega)A(Omega)geq pi ^3$. The analysis relies on the minimization of the elastic energy of drops enclosing a prescribed area, for which we give as well an analytic answer.