Soap films with gravity and almost-minimal surfaces

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2019236zbMATH Open1431.49047arXiv1807.05200OpenAlexW2883731223MaRDI QIDQ2335348FDOQ2335348

Authors: Francesco Maggi, Salvatore Stuvard, A. Scardicchio 

Publication date: 14 November 2019

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by the study of the equilibrium equations for a soap film hanging from a wire frame, we prove a compactness theorem for surfaces with asymptotically vanishing mean curvature and fixed or converging boundaries. In particular, we obtain sufficient geometric conditions for the minimal surfaces spanned by a given boundary to represent all the possible limits of sequences of almost-minimal surfaces. Finally, we provide some sharp quantitative estimates on the distance of an almost-minimal surface from its limit minimal surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05200

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesPlateau problemintegral currentsintegral varifoldscapillarity theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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