A sufficient criterion to determine planar self-Cheeger sets

Abstract

We show a sufficient criterion to determine if a planar set $\Omega$ is a minimizer of the prescribed curvature functional among all of its subsets. As a special case, we derive a sufficient criterion to determine if $\Omega$ is a self-Cheeger set, i.e. if it minimizes the ratio $P(E)/|E|$ among all of its subsets. Specifically, if a Jordan domain $\Omega$ possesses the interior disk property of radius $|\Omega|/P(\Omega)$, then it is a self-Cheeger set; if it possesses the strict interior disk property then it is a minimal Cheeger set, i.e. the unique minimizer. As a side effect we provide a way to build self-Cheeger sets.