Uniqueness of stable capillary hypersurfaces in a ball (Q2314810)

Let \((\bar{M}^{n+1},\bar{g})\) be an oriented \((n+1)\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold and \(B\) be a smooth compact domain in \(\bar{M}\) that is diffeomorphic to a Euclidean ball. Let \(x:(M^n,g)\to B\) be an isometric immersion of an orientable \(n\)-dimensional compact manifold \(M\) with boundary \(\partial M\) into \(B\) that maps \(\mathrm{int}M\) into \(\mathrm{int}B\) and \(\partial M\) into \(\partial B\). An immersion \(x:M\to B\) is said to be capillary if it is a critical point of the energy function for any volume-preserving variation of \(x\). Also, \(x\) is capillary if and only if \(x\) has constant mean curvature and \(\partial M\) intersects \(\partial B\) at a constant angle \(\theta \in (0,\pi)\). A capillary hypersurface is called stable if the second variational formula of energy is positive for all volume-preserving variations. \begin{itemize} \item[1.] First, the authors prove that any immersed stable capillary hypersurface in a ball is space form are totally umbilical. \item[2.] Secondly, the authors etablish a Heintze-Karcher-Ros-type inequality for hypersurface with free boundary in a ball. As an application, they give an integral geometric proof of the Alexandrov Theorem for embedded CMC hypersurfaces. \end{itemize}