Concentration breaking on two optimization problems

Abstract

In the present paper, we study the boundary concentration breaking phenomena on two thermal insulation problems considered on Lipschitz domains, based on Serrin's overdetermined results, perturbation argument and comparison of Laplacian eigenvalues with different boundary conditions. Since neither of the functionals in the two problems is $C^1$, another key ingredient is to obtain the global Hölder regularity of minimizers to both problems on Lipschitz domains. Also, exact dependence on domain of breaking thresholds is also given in the first problem, and the breaking values are obtained in the second problem on ball domains, which are related to $2\pi$ in dimension $2$.

The paper has been accepted for publication in SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics