Regularity of C^1 smooth surfaces with prescribed p-mean curvature in the Heisenberg group

DOI10.1007/S00208-008-0294-4MaRDI QIDQ1016217zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jih-Hsin Cheng, Jenn-Fang Hwang, Paul C. Yang

Publication date 5 May 2009

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1776

zbMATH Keywords

3-dimensional Heisenberg groupAnalysis on CR manifoldscharacteristic coordinatesjump formulasSubelliptic problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Subelliptic equations (35H20) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: We consider a $C^1$ smooth surface with prescribed $p$(or $H$)-mean curvature in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group. Assuming only the prescribed $p$-mean curvature $Hin{C}^0,$ we show that any characteristic curve is $C^2$ smooth and its (line) curvature equals $-H$ in the nonsingular domain$.$ By introducing characteristic coordinates and invoking the jump formulas along characteristic curves, we can prove that the Legendrian (or horizontal) normal gains one more derivative. Therefore the seed curves are $C^2$ smooth. We also obtain the uniqueness of characteristic and seed curves passing through a common point under some mild conditions, respectively. These results can be applied to more general situations.

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