Abstract
We provide a quantitative description of global minimizers of the Gauss free energy for a liquid droplet bounded in a container in the small volume regime.
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We thank an anonymous referee for carefully reading the paper and for various interesting comments. This work was supported by the NSF Grants DMS-1265910 and DMS-1361122.
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