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We study the properties of sets S having the minimal length (one-dimensional Hausdorff measure) over the class of closed connected sets σ R2 satisfying the inequality maxy2M dist (y; S) = r for a given compact set M R2 and some given r > 0. Such sets play the role of shortest possible pipelines arriving at a distance at most r to every point of M, where M is the set of customers of the pipeline. We describe the set of minimizers for M a circumference of radius R > 0 for the case when r < R=4:98, thus proving the conjecture of Miranda, Paolini and Stepanov for this particular case. Moreover we show that when M is the boundary of a smooth convex set with minimal radius of curvature R, then every minimizer S has similar structure for r < R=5. Additionaly, we prove a similar statement for local minimizers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1015-1041
Number of pages27
JournalESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations
Volume24
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

    Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Control and Optimization
  • Control and Systems Engineering

    Research areas

  • Locally minimal network, Maximal distance minimizer, Steiner tree, CONTINUA, DIRICHLET REGIONS, locally minimal network, maximal distance minimizer

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