Collapsing and the convex hull property in a soap film capillarity model

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2021.02.005MaRDI QIDQ2235197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Darren King, Francesco Maggi, Salvatore Stuvard

Publication date 20 October 2021

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06273

zbMATH Keywords

constant mean curvature surfacesconvex hull propertyminimal surfacesPlateau's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: Soap films hanging from a wire frame are studied in the framework of capillarity theory. Minimizers in the corresponding variational problem are known to consist of positive volume regions with boundaries of constant mean curvature/pressure, possibly connected by "collapsed" minimal surfaces. We prove here that collapsing only occurs if the mean curvature/pressure of the bulky regions is negative, and that, when this last property holds, the whole soap film lies in the convex hull of its boundary wire frame.

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