Existence and qualitative properties of isoperimetric sets in periodic media

Abstract

We review and extend here some recent results on the existence of minimal surfaces and isoperimetric sets in non homogeneous and anisotropic periodic media. We also describe the qualitative properties of the homogenized surface tension, also known as stable norm (or minimal action) in Weak KAM theory. In particular we investigate its strict convexity and differentiability properties.

arXiv commentThis paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference "Geometric PDEs" held in Pisa in September 2012