Some Explicit Examples of Minimizers for the Irrigation Problem

P. Tilli

Journal of convex analysis, Tome 17 (2010) no. 2, pp. 583-595.

Résumé

We construct some examples of explicit solutions to the problem \[ \min_\gamma \int_\Omega d_\gamma(x)\,dx \] where the minimum is over all connected compact sets $\gamma\subset \overline\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^2$ of prescribed one-dimensional Hausdorff measure. More precisely we show that, if $\gamma$ is a $C^{1,1}$ curve of length $l$ with curvature bounded by $1/R$, $l \leq\pi R$ and $\varepsilon\leq R$, then $\gamma$ is a solution to the above problem with $\Omega$ being the $\varepsilon$-neighbourhood of $\gamma$. In particular, $C^{1,1}$ regularity is optimal for this problem.