Capillary surfaces inside polyhedral regions (Q745586)

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    14 October 2015
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    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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