Uniqueness of the Cheeger set of a convex body

Abstract We prove that if C ⊂ R N is an open bounded convex set, then there is only one Cheeger set inside C and it is convex. A Cheeger set of C is a set which minimizes the ratio perimeter over volume among all subsets of C .

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