# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2015, 14(3): 959-968. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.959

## On the variational $p$-capacity problem in the plane

 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL A1C 5S7

Received  July 2014 Revised  December 2014 Published  March 2015

Under $1 < p \leq 2$, this note presents some new optimal isoperimetric type properties of the variational $p$-capacitary potentials on convex plane rings.
Citation: Jie Xiao. On the variational $p$-capacity problem in the plane. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2015, 14 (3) : 959-968. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.959
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##### References:
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