Abstract
We study the optimal design problem of finding the minimal energy configuration for a mixture of two conducting materials when a perimeter penalization of the unknown domain is added. We show that in this situation an optimal domain exists and that, under suitable assumptions on the data, it is an open set.
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This work is part of the project “EURHomogenization”, contract SC1-CT91-0732 of the program SCIENCE of the Commission of the European Communities.