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Pacific Journal of Mathematics 196 (2000), 395-414.

Cost-minimizing networks among immiscible fluids in R2

David Futer, Andrei Gnepp, David McMath, Brian A. Munson, Ting Ng, Sang-Hyoun Pahk and Cara Yoder

Abstract:

We model interfaces between immiscible fluids as cost-mini\-mizing networks, where ``cost'' is a weighted length. We consider conjectured necessary and sufficient conditions for when a planar cone is minimizing. In some cases we give a proof; in other cases we provide a counterexample.