Optimization problems for an energy functional with mass constraint revisited

In this paper we report on a variational problem under a constraint on the mass which is motivated by the torsional rigidity and torsional creep. Following a device by Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman we treat instead a problem without constraint but with a penalty term. We will complete some of the results of [C. Bandle, A. Wagner, Optimization problems for weighted Sobolev constants, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 29 (2007) 481–507] where the existence of a Lipschitz continuous minimizer has been established. In particular we prove qualitative properties of the optimal shape.