the sphere

In continuation of previous work, we analyze the properties of spectral minimal partitions and focus in this paper our analysis on the case of the sphere. We prove that a minimal 3-partition for the sphere \(\mathbb{S}^2\) is up to a rotation the so-called Y-partition. This question is connected to a celebrated conjecture of Bishop in harmonic analysis.

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