Paired calibrations applied to soap films, immiscible fluids, and surfaces or networks minimizing other norms
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Paired calibrations applied to soap films, immiscible fluids, and surfaces or networks minimizing other norms
zbMATH Open document ID: 0830.49028
author: Frank Morgan
author: Gary R. Lawlor
published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1996-01-18T00:00:00Z
review text: In the classification of soap-film singularities \textit{J. Taylor} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 103, 489-539 (1976; Zbl 0335.49032)] proved only by the process of elimination that the cone over the edges of the regular tetrahedron minimizes area among surfaces separating the four faces. The purpose of the present paper is to give a direct proof which applies to regular simplices in all dimensions. After an introductory section, the second section provides examples of cones which minimize total interface energy, as for immiscible fluids. These cones serve as models for general singular structure. The third section provides examples of cones which minimize hypersurface energies given by general norms \(\Phi_{ij}\) on the space of normal vectors, as in the surface energy of crystals. The case when all of the norms \(\Phi_{ij}\) are equal is of primary interest. Examples include a cone over a triangular prism (Proposition 3.5). Finally, the section four classifies the singularities in \(\Phi\)- minimizing networks in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and establishes that in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) at most \(n+ 1\) segments meet at a point (Theorem 4.5).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49Q15
zbMATH DE Number: 759234
zbMATH Keywords: minimizing networks
zbMATH Keywords: soap-film singularities
zbMATH Keywords: interface energy
zbMATH Keywords: immiscible fluids
zbMATH Keywords: hypersurface energies
zbMATH Keywords: surface energy
reviewed by: Neculai Papaghiuc
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: pjm.1994.166.55
OpenAlex ID: W1987050938
DOI: 10.2140/PJM.1994.166.55
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