Capillary surfaces inside polyhedral regions

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Abstract: In this paper we provide a large new family of embedded capillary surfaces inside polyhedral regions in the Euclidean space. The angle of contact of the examples we furnish is prescribed to be any value in (fracpi2,pi] and it is allowed to vary from one boundary component to the other.


A capillary surface in \(B \subset \mathbb R^3\) is a compact H-surface (i.e., with constant mean curvature H) with non-empty boundary, which is \(C^1\) up to the boundary and meeting the frontier of \(B\) at a constant angle \(\theta \in [0, \pi]\) along its boundary. Capillary surfaces are stationary surfaces for an energy functional under a volume constraint. Many works have been devoted to prove the existence of disk-type H-surfaces with free boundary (i.e., in the case \(\theta=\frac{\pi}{2}\)) inside a given compact region. In this paper the authors prove the existence of a large family of embedded capillary surfaces of genus zero in polyhedral convex domains in \(\mathbb R^3\) for which the angle of contact vary in \([\frac{\pi}{2},\pi]\) from one boundary component to the other. The main tool that the authors exploit in this paper is the classical Minkowski problem of prescribing a positive Gauss curvature on the immersed sphere in the space.



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