WIAS Preprint No. 2223, (2016)

Quantitative flatness results and $BV$-estimates for stable nonlocal minimal surfaces



Authors

  • Cinti, Eleonora
  • Serra, Joaquim
  • Valdinoci, Enrico
    ORCID: 0000-0001-6222-2272

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 49Q05 35R11 53A10

Keywords

  • Nonlocal minimal surfaces, existence and regularity results

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2223

Abstract

We establish quantitative properties of minimizers and stable sets for nonlocal interaction functionals, including the $s$-fractional perimeter as a particular case. On the one hand, we establish universal $BV$-estimates in every dimension $nge 2$ for stable sets. Namely, we prove that any stable set in $B_1$ has finite classical perimeter in $B_1/2$, with a universal bound. This nonlocal result is new even in the case of $s$-perimeters and its local counterpart (for classical stable minimal surfaces) was known only for simply connected two-dimensional surfaces immersed in $R^3$. On the other hand, we prove quantitative flatness estimates for minimizers and stable sets in low dimensions $n=2,3$. More precisely, we show that a stable set in $B_R$, with $R$ large, is very close in measure to being a half space in $B_1$ ---with a quantitative estimate on the measure of the symmetric difference. As a byproduct, we obtain new classification results for stable sets in the whole plane.

Appeared in

  • J. Differential Geom., 112:3 (2019), pp. 447-504.

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