Discrete Quantitative Isocapacitary Inequality: Fluctuation Estimates

Abstract

The classical isocapacitary inequality states that, among all sets of fixed volume, the ball uniquely minimizes the capacity. While this result holds in the continuum, it fails in the discrete setting, where the isocapacitary problem may admit multiple minimizers. In this paper we establish quantitative fluctuation estimates for the discrete isocapacitary problem on subsets of ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ as their cardinality diverges. Our approach relies on a careful extension of the associated variational problem from the discrete to the continuum setting, combined with sharp (continuum) quantitative isocapacitary inequalities.