Compactness and dichotomy in nonlocal shape optimization

2018/06/04 by Enea Parini, Ariel Salort, Parini, Enea +1
Mathematics · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #math.AP

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.01165

17 pages

arxiv created 2018/06/04 · arxiv updated 2018/06/05

Abstract

We prove a general result about the behaviour of minimizing sequences for nonlocal shape functionals satisfying suitable structural assumptions. Typical examples include functions of the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplacian under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Exploiting a nonlocal version of Lions' concentration-compactness principle, we prove that either an optimal shape exists, or there exists a minimizing sequence consisting of two "pieces" whose mutual distance tends to infinity. Our work is inspired by similar results obtained by Bucur in the local case.

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