paper

Stationary configurations for the average distance functional and related problems

arXiv:1401.0394

Abstract

For a functional defined on the class of closed one-dimensional connected subsets of we consider the corresponding minimization problem and we give suitable first order necessary conditions of optimality. The cases studied here are the average distance functional arising in the mass transportation theory, and the energy related to an elliptic PDE.

18 pages, 5 figures, The final publication is available at http://control.ibspan.waw.pl:3000/mainpage