Sharp solvability criteria for Dirichlet problems of mean curvature type in Riemannian manifolds: non-existence results

DOI10.1007/S00526-019-1649-2zbMATH Open1428.53070arXiv1902.08662OpenAlexW2982356462WikidataQ115387143 ScholiaQ115387143MaRDI QIDQ2334537FDOQ2334537

Authors: Yunelsy N. Alvarez, Ricardo Sa Earp 

Publication date: 7 November 2019

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

Abstract: It is well known that the Serrin condition is a necessary condition for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for the prescribed mean curvature equation in bounded domains of $mathbb{R}^n$ with certain regularity. In this paper we investigate the sharpness of the Serrin condition for the vertical mean curvature equation in the product $M^{n}imesmathbbR$. Precisely, given a $mathscr{C}^2$ bounded domain $Omega$ in $M$ and a function $H=H(x,z)$ continuous in $overlineOmegaimesmathbbR$ and non-decreasing in the variable $z$, we prove that the strong Serrin condition $(n-1)mathcal{H}_{partialOmega}(y)geqnsuplimit{s}_{zinmathbbR}|H(y,z)|forallyinpartialOmega$, is a necessary condition for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem in a large class of Riemannian manifolds within which are the Hadamard manifolds and manifolds whose sectional curvatures are bounded above by a positive constant. As a consequence of our results we deduce Jenkins-Serrin and Serrin type sharp solvability criteria.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08662

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zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvaturesectional curvaturedistance functionshyperbolic spaceDirichlet problemsHadamard manifoldsmean curvature equationradial curvatureLaplacian comparison theoremSerrin condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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