Stability of the ball for attractive-repulsive energies

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Main Authors: Bonacini, Marco, Cristoferi, Riccardo, Topaloglu, Ihsan
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author Bonacini, Marco
Cristoferi, Riccardo
Topaloglu, Ihsan
author_facet Bonacini, Marco
Cristoferi, Riccardo
Topaloglu, Ihsan
contents We consider a class of attractive-repulsive energies, given by the sum of two nonlocal interactions with power-law kernels, defined over sets with fixed measure. It has recently been proved by R. Frank and E. Lieb that the ball is the unique (up to translation) global minimizer for sufficiently large mass. We focus on the issue of the stability of the ball, in the sense of the positivity of the second variation of the energy with respect to smooth perturbations of the boundary of the ball. We characterize the range of masses for which the second variation is positive definite (large masses) or negative definite (small masses). Moreover, we prove that the stability of the ball implies its local minimality among sets sufficiently close in the Hausdorff distance, but not in $L^1$-sense.
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spellingShingle Stability of the ball for attractive-repulsive energies
Bonacini, Marco
Cristoferi, Riccardo
Topaloglu, Ihsan
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Functional Analysis
We consider a class of attractive-repulsive energies, given by the sum of two nonlocal interactions with power-law kernels, defined over sets with fixed measure. It has recently been proved by R. Frank and E. Lieb that the ball is the unique (up to translation) global minimizer for sufficiently large mass. We focus on the issue of the stability of the ball, in the sense of the positivity of the second variation of the energy with respect to smooth perturbations of the boundary of the ball. We characterize the range of masses for which the second variation is positive definite (large masses) or negative definite (small masses). Moreover, we prove that the stability of the ball implies its local minimality among sets sufficiently close in the Hausdorff distance, but not in $L^1$-sense.
title Stability of the ball for attractive-repulsive energies
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
Functional Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00388