Symmetry of hypersurfaces with ordered mean curvature in one direction

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-02030-5MaRDI QIDQ2048889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 24 August 2021

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04348

zbMATH Keywords

hypersurfaces without boundary in \({\mathbb{R}}^{n} \)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational inequalities (49J40) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

Abstract: For a connected $n$-dimensional compact smooth hypersurface $M$ without boundary embedded in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, a classical result of Aleksandrov shows that it must be a sphere if it has constant mean curvature. Li and Nirenberg studied a one-directional analog of this result: if every pair of points $(x^{\prime },a),(x^{\prime },b)inM$ with $a<b$ has ordered mean curvature $H(x^{\prime },b)leqH(x^{\prime },a)$, then $M$ is symmetric about some hyperplane $x_{n+1}=c$ under some additional conditions. Their proof was done by the moving plane method and some variations of the Hopf Lemma. We obtain the symmetry of $M$ under some weaker assumptions using a variational argument, giving a positive answer to the conjecture given by Li and Nirenberg.

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