Affine variational functionals, isoperimetric problems and stability

Abstract

We study three affine variational quantities built on the affine $L^p$ energy of Lutwak, Yang and Zhang: the affine Poincaré--Sobolev constants $Λ^{\mathcal{A}}_{p,q}(Ω)$ of a bounded open set, the associated affine torsional rigidity, and the affine $p$-capacity of a compact set. We show that ellipsoids are the only extremal sets in their corresponding isoperimetric inequalities, and that the affine capacity of a compact set of positive volume is attained by a potential solving the affine $p$-Laplace equation. We also prove an affine Kohler-Jobin inequality: among sets with prescribed affine torsional rigidity, only ellipsoids minimize $Λ^{\mathcal{A}}_{p,q}$. Following the approach of Haddad, Jiménez and Montenegro to affine Sobolev inequalities, our methods rest on the $L_p$ Busemann--Petty centroid inequality. Proving a stability version of it, we obtain quantitative forms of the isoperimetric inequalities for $Λ^{\mathcal{A}}_{p,q}$, the affine torsional rigidity and the affine $p$-capacity, together with a stability result for the affine Kohler-Jobin inequality on convex sets.