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The isoperimetric profile of a compact Riemannian Manifold for small volumes

arXiv:0710.1396 · doi:10.1007/s10455-008-9152-6

Abstract

We show that, the solutions of the isoperimetric problem for small volumes are -close to small spheres. On the way, we define a class of submanifolds called pseudo balls, defined by an equation weaker than constancy of mean curvature. We show that in a neighborhood of each point of a compact riemannian manifold, there is a unique family concentric pseudo balls which contains all the pseudo balls -close to small spheres. This allows us to reduce the isoperimetric problem for small volumes to a variational problem in finite dimension.

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