Isoperimetry with upper mean curvature bounds and sharp stability estimates (Q526959)

In the present paper it is studied the stability of Almgren's isoperimetric principle in codimension one. This case is relevant in the study of hypersurfaces with almost constant mean curvature which is motivated by applications to capillarity theory and geometric flows. The authors obtain a sharp stability analysis of Almgren's principle and they deduce from it new sharp results on hypersurfaces with almost constant mean curvature. In the case of smooth codimension one boundaries, Plateau's problem can be stated as follows. If \(\Omega\) is a (non-empty) bounded open set with smooth boundary in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) and \(H_\Omega\) denotes the mean curvature of \(\partial \Omega\) (computed with respect to the outer unit normal \(\nu_\Omega\) to \(\Omega\)), then (*) \(H_\Omega(x)\leq n, \;\forall x\in\partial \Omega\) implies \(P(\Omega)\geq P(B_1)\), with \(P(\Omega)=P(B_1)\) if and only if \(\Omega\) is a unit ball. Here \(n\geq 1,\;B_r(x)= \{y\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}: |x-y|<r, r>0\}\) and \(P(\Omega)=\mathcal{H}^n(\partial \Omega)\) is the perimeter of \(\Omega\). After recalling some stability results for related isoperimetric principles, which serves to illustrate the context of the main results, the authors obtain some sharp stability estimates for the isoperimetric principle (*). Next, they obtain the main stability theorems for the Almgren's isoperimetric principle and discuss an application to Alexandrov's theorem.