Boundary value problems for a special Helfrich functional for surfaces of revolution: existence and asymptotic behaviour

DOI10.1007/S00526-020-01875-6MaRDI QIDQ2225916zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Doemeland, Hans-Christoph Grunau, Klaus Deckelnick

Publication date 11 February 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10853

zbMATH Keywords

catenoidDirichlet problemenergy methodimplicit function theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Analytic approximation of solutions (perturbation methods, asymptotic methods, series, etc.) of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G10) Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65)

Abstract: The central object of this article is (a special version of) the Helfrich functional which is the sum of the Willmore functional and the area functional times a weight factor $varepsilonge0$. We collect several results concerning the existence of solutions to a Dirichlet boundary value problem for Helfrich surfaces of revolution and cover some specific regimes of boundary conditions and weight factors $varepsilonge0$. These results are obtained with the help of different techniques like an energy method, gluing techniques and the use of the implicit function theorem close to Helfrich cylinders. In particular, concerning the regime of boundary values, where a catenoid exists as a global minimiser of the area functional, existence of minimisers of the Helfrich functional is established for emph{all} weight factors $varepsilonge0$. For the singular limit of weight factors $varepsilonearrowinfty$ they converge uniformly to the catenoid which minimises the surface area in the class of surfaces of revolution.

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