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Global minimizer of the ground state for two phase conductorsin low contrast regime∗∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2014

Antoine Laurain*
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Berlin, Sekretariat MA 4-5, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany. laurain@math.tu-berlin.de
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Abstract

The problem of distributing two conducting materials with a prescribed volume ratio in aball so as to minimize the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with Dirichletconditions is considered in two and three dimensions. The gap ε between the twoconductivities is assumed to be small (low contrast regime). The main result of the paperis to show, using asymptotic expansions with respect to ε and to small geometricperturbations of the optimal shape, that the global minimum of the first eigenvalue in lowcontrast regime is either a centered ball or the union of a centered ball and of acentered ring touching the boundary, depending on the prescribed volume ratio between thetwo materials.

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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2014

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