Rearrangements and radial graphs of constant mean curvature in hyperbolic space (Q956661): Difference between revisions

The problem is studied of finding smooth hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature in hyperbolic space, which can be represented as radial graphs over a domain \(\Omega\) strictly contained in the upper hemisphere \(\mathbb{S}^n_+\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\). Let \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{S}^n_+\), and suppose that \(\Sigma\) is a radial graph on \(\Omega\) with position vector \(X\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\). Then \(X=e^{v(z)}z\), \(z\in \Omega\), for a function \(v\) defined over \(\Omega\). Assume that \(\Sigma\) has constant mean curvature \(H\) in hyperbolic space with respect to the outward unit normal. Then \(v\) satisfies the divergence form elliptic equation. The direct methods of the calculus of variation are applied, in order to prove the existence of a smooth solution to this equation. Also, the existence is obtained of bounded local minimizers of the energy functional in the class \(BV(\Omega)\), as long as \(|H|<1\). The Dirichlet problem for the energy functional is set up and solved. A low-dimensional result about \(v\in C^\infty(\Omega)\) is obtained for \(n\geq 6\), via rearrangement techniques.