On the stability for Alexandrov's soap bubble theorem

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Abstract: Alexandrov's Soap Bubble theorem dates back to 1958 and states that a compact embedded hypersurface in mathbbRN with constant mean curvature must be a sphere. For its proof, A.D. Alexandrov invented his reflection priciple. In 1982, R. Reilly gave an alternative proof, based on integral identities and inequalities, connected with the torsional rigidity of a bar. In this article we study the stability of the spherical symmetry: the question is how much a hypersurface is near to a sphere, when its mean curvature is near to a constant in some norm. We present a stability estimate that states that a compact hypersurface GammasubsetmathbbRN can be contained in a spherical annulus whose interior and exterior radii, say hoi and hoe, satisfy the inequality ho_e - ho_i le C Vert H - H_0 Vert^{ au_N}_{L^1 (Gamma)}, where auN=1/2 if N=2,3, and auN=1/(N+2) if Nge4. Here, H is the mean curvature of Gamma, H0 is some reference constant and C is a constant that depends on some geometrical and spectral parameters associated with Gamma. This estimate improves previous results in the literature under various aspects. We also present similar estimates for some related overdetermined problems.





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