Stable and isoperimetric regions in some weighted manifolds with boundary

Abstract

In a Riemannian manifold with a smooth positive function that weights the associated Hausdorff measures we study stable sets, i.e., second order minima of the weighted perimeter under variations preserving the weighted volume. By assuming local convexity of the boundary and certain behavior of the Bakry–Émery– Ricci tensor we deduce rigidity properties for stable sets by using deformations constructed from parallel vector fields tangent to the boundary. As a consequence, we completely classify the stable sets in some Riemannian cylinders Ω × R with product weights. Finally, we also establish uniqueness results showing that any minimizer of the weighted perimeter for fixed weighted volume is bounded by a horizontal slice Ω × {t}.