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A Glimpse of Shape Optimization Problems


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1 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Pune 411 008, India
 

In this mini review, we give a glimpse of a branch of geometric analysis known as shape optimization problems. We introduce isoperimetric problems as a special class of shape optimization problems. We include a brief history of the isoperimetric problems and give a brief survey of the kind of shape optimization problems that we (with our collaborators) have worked on. We discuss the key ideas used in proving these results in the Euclidean case. Without getting into the technicalities, we mention how we generalized the results which were known in the Euclidean case to other geometric spaces. We also describe how we extended these results from the linear setting to a non-linear one. We describe briefly the difficulties faced in proving these generalized versions and how we overcame these difficulties.

Keywords

Comparison Principles, Isoperimetric Problems, Moving Plane Method, Maximum Principles.
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Anisa M. H. Chorwadwala
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Pune 411 008, India

Abstract


In this mini review, we give a glimpse of a branch of geometric analysis known as shape optimization problems. We introduce isoperimetric problems as a special class of shape optimization problems. We include a brief history of the isoperimetric problems and give a brief survey of the kind of shape optimization problems that we (with our collaborators) have worked on. We discuss the key ideas used in proving these results in the Euclidean case. Without getting into the technicalities, we mention how we generalized the results which were known in the Euclidean case to other geometric spaces. We also describe how we extended these results from the linear setting to a non-linear one. We describe briefly the difficulties faced in proving these generalized versions and how we overcame these difficulties.

Keywords


Comparison Principles, Isoperimetric Problems, Moving Plane Method, Maximum Principles.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi07%2F1474-1477