On different notions of calibrations for minimal partitions and minimal networks in ℝ2
Marcello Carioni, Alessandra Pluda · Advances in Calculus of Variations · 2019
Abstract Calibrations are a possible tool to validate the minimality of a certain candidate. They have been introduced in the context of minimal surfaces and adapted to the case of the Steiner problem in several variants. Our goal is to compare the different notions of calibrations for the Steiner problem and for planar minimal partitions that are already present in the literature. The paper is then complemented with remarks on the convexification of the problem, on nonexistence of calibrations and on calibrations in families.