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A Survey
Pertti Mattila
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19 December 2022

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12 January 2023
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Rectifiable sets, measures, currents and varifolds are foundational concepts in geometric measure theory. The last four decades have seen the emergence of a wealth of connections between rectifiability and other areas of analysis and geometry, including deep links with the calculus of variations and complex and harmonic analysis. This short book provides an easily digestible overview of this wide and active field, including discussions of historical background, the basic theory in Euclidean and non-Euclidean settings, and the appearance of rectifiability in analysis and geometry. The author avoids complicated technical arguments and long proofs, instead giving the reader a flavour of each of the topics in turn while providing full references to the wider literature in an extensive bibliography. It is a perfect introduction to the area for researchers and graduate students, who will find much inspiration for their own research inside.

Shape optimization problems for metric graphs
Giuseppe Buttazzo, Berardo Ruffini, Bozhidar Velichkov
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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations / Volume 20 / Issue 1 / January 2014

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29 August 2013, pp. 1-22

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January 2014
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We consider the shape optimization problem \hbox{$\min\big\{\E(\Gamma)\ :\ \Gamma\in\A,\ \H^1(\Gamma)=l\\big\},$}min{ℰ(Γ):Γ ∈ 𝒜,ℋ1(Γ) = l}, where ℋ1 is the one-dimensional Hausdorffmeasure and𝒜is an admissible class of one-dimensional setsconnecting some prescribed set of points \hbox{$\D=\{D_1,\dots,D_k\}\subset\R^d$}𝒟 = { D1,...,Dk } ⊂ Rd. The cost functional ℰ(Γ) is theDirichlet energy of Γ defined through the Sobolev functions onΓ vanishing on the pointsDi. We analyze the existence of a solutionin both the families of connected sets and of metric graphs. At the end, several explicitexamples are discussed.