A new proof of a characterization of small spherical caps

DOI10.1007/S00025-009-0412-YMaRDI QIDQ844026zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rafael López

Publication date 18 January 2010

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3298

zbMATH Keywords

maximum principlemean curvaturespherical cap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: It is known that planar disks and small spherical caps are the only constant mean curvature graphs whose boundary is a round circle. Usually, the proof invokes the Maximum Principle for elliptic equations. This paper presents a new proof of this result motivated by an article due to Reilly. Our proof utilizes a flux formula for surfaces with constant mean curvature together with integral equalities on the surface.

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