A note on Cheeger sets

Figalli, Alessio; Maggi, Francesco; Pratelli, Aldo

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09795-0

A note on Cheeger sets
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Abstract:

Starting from the quantitative isoperimetric inequality, we prove a sharp quantitative version of the Cheeger inequality.

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