Issue |
ESAIM: COCV
Volume 24, Number 4, October–December 2018
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Page(s) | 1381 - 1394 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2017059 | |
Published online | 24 October 2018 |
Symmetry-breaking in a generalized Wirtinger inequality
1
Università degli Studi di Pisa,
Dipartimento di Matematica,
Pisa, Italy
2
Università degli Studi di Pisa,
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale,
Pisa, Italy
3
Scuola Normale Superiore,
Classe di Scienze,
Pisa, Italy
* Corresponding author: massimo.gobbino@unipi.it
Received:
10
June
2017
Accepted:
30
August
2017
The search of the optimal constant for a generalized Wirtinger inequality in an interval consists in minimizing the p-norm of the derivative among all functions whose q-norm is equal to 1 and whose (r − 1)-power has zero average. Symmetry properties of minimizers have attracted great attention in mathematical literature in the last decades, leading to a precise characterization of symmetry and asymmetry regions. In this paper we provide a proof of the symmetry result without computer assisted steps, and a proof of the asymmetry result which works as well for local minimizers. As a consequence, we have now a full elementary description of symmetry and asymmetry cases, both for global and for local minima. Proofs rely on appropriate nonlinear variable changes.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 26D10 / 49R05
Key words: Generalized Wirtinger inequality / generalized Poincaré inequality / best constant in Sobolev inequalities / symmetry of minimizers / variable changes
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