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Isoperimetric clusters with a liquid phase
Abstract
A wet foam is a cluster of air chambers whose interfaces are coated by a single liquid chamber of prescribed volume. In the corresponding isoperimetric problem the liquid chamber may collapse onto films of zero thickness, so that minimizers need not exist. We identify the relaxed energy accounting for such collapsed films and prove that limits of minimizing sequences are its minimizers. The resulting compactness and energy representation theorems lead to the regularity of these generalized minimizers, including an equilibrium law for the pressures across collapsed films. Finally, as the liquid volume vanishes, the minimal energies converge to those of the classical dry foam.
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BibTeX
@misc{wellington2026isoperimetric,
title = {{Isoperimetric clusters with a liquid phase}},
author = {Jake Wellington},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.32145},
eprint = {2609.32145},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32145},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Isoperimetric clusters with a liquid phase
AU - Jake Wellington
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.32145
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32145
AB - A wet foam is a cluster of air chambers whose interfaces are coated by a single liquid chamber of prescribed volume. In the corresponding isoperimetric problem the liquid chamber may collapse onto films of zero thickness, so that minimizers need not exist. We identify the relaxed energy accounting for such collapsed films and prove that limits of minimizing sequences are its minimizers. The resulting compactness and energy representation theorems lead to the regularity of these generalized minimizers, including an equilibrium law for the pressures across collapsed films. Finally, as the liquid volume vanishes, the minimal energies converge to those of the classical dry foam.
ER -