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We formulate the minimization of the buckling load of a clamped plate as a free boundary value problem with a penalization term for the volume constraint. As the penalization parameter becomes small we show that the optimal shape problem with prescribed volume is solved. In addition, we discuss two different choices for the penalization term.
We prove the existence of an optimal domain for minimizing the buckling load among all, possibly unbounded, open subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 2$) with given measure. Our approach is based on the extension of a 2-dimensional existence result of Ashbaugh and Bucur and on the idea of Alt and Caffarelli to focus on the eigenfunction.
In the 19th century, Lord Rayleigh conjectured that among all clamped plates with given area, the disk minimizes the fundamental tone. In the 1990s, N. S. Nadirashvili proved the conjecture in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and M. S. Ashbaugh und R. D. Benguria gave a proof in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$. In the present paper, we prove existence of an optimal domain for minimizing the fundamental tone among all open and bounded subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 4$, with given measure. We formulate the minimization of the fundamental tone of a clamped plate as a free boundary value problem with a penalization term for the volume constraint. As the penalization parameter becomes small we show that the optimal shape problem is solved.
In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal domain which minimizes the buckling load of a clamped plate among all bounded domains with given measure. Instead of treating this variational problem with a volume constraint, we introduce a problem without any constraints, but with a penalty term. We concentrate on the minimizing function and prove that it has Lipschitz continuous first derivatives. Furthermore, we show that the penalized problem and the original problem can be treated as equivalent. Finally, we establish some qualitative properties of the free boundary.