Bubbling of almost critical points of anisotropic isoperimetric problems with degenerating ellipticity

Abstract

Given a sequence of uniformly convex norms ${\varphi }_h$ on ${\mathbf{R}}^{n+1}$ converging to an arbitrary norm $\varphi$, we prove rigidity of $L^1$-accumulation points of sequences of sets $E_h\subseteq {\mathbf{R}}^{n+1}$ of finite perimeter, that are volume-constrained almost-critical points of the anisotropic surface energy functionals associated with ${\varphi }_h$. Here, almost criticality is measured in terms of the $L^n$-deviation from being constant of the distributional anisotropic mean ${\varphi }_h$-curvature of (the varifold associated to) of the reduced boundaries of $E_h$. We prove that such limits are finite union of disjoint, but possibly mutually tangent, $\varphi$-Wulff shapes.

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