A geometric problem and the Hopf lemma. II

DOI10.1007/S11401-006-0037-3MaRDI QIDQ2431990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Louis Nirenberg, Yan Yan Li

Publication date 24 October 2006

Published in Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601704

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

Abstract: A classical result of A.D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n-$dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $Bbb{R}^{n+1}$, and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of symmetry of $M$ in a hyperplane $X_{n+1}=$constant in case $M$ satisfies: for any two points $(X^{\prime },X_{n+1})$, $(X^{\prime },hat{X}_{n+1})$ on $M$, with $X_{n+1}>hat{X}_{n+1}$, the mean curvature at the first is not greater than that at the second. Symmetry need not always hold, but in this paper, we establish it under some additional conditions. Some variations of the Hopf Lemma are also presented. Several open problems are described. Part I dealt with corresponding one dimensional problems.

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