Uniqueness of generalized p-area minimizers and integrability of a horizontal normal in the Heisenberg group

DOI10.1007/S00526-013-0647-ZMaRDI QIDQ2510351zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jih-Hsin Cheng, Jenn-Fang Hwang

Publication date 1 August 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1474

zbMATH Keywords

generalized \(p\)-minimal surfacesHeisenberg groupintegrability condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Degenerate hyperbolic equations (35L80) PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: We study the uniqueness of generalized $p$-minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group. The generalized $p$-area of a graph defined by $u$ reads $int|ablau+vecF|+Hu$. If $u$ and $v$ are two minimizers for the generalized $p$-area satisfying the same Dirichlet boundary condition, then we can only get $N_{vecF}(u)$ $=$ $N_{vecF}(v)$ (on the nonsingular set) where $N_{vecF}(w)$ $:=$ $fracablaw+vecF|ablaw+vecF|.$ To conclude $u$ $=$ $v$ (or $ablau$ $=$ $ablav)$, it is not straightforward as in the Riemannian case, but requires some special argument in general. In this paper, for a generalized area functional including $p$-area, we prove that $N_{vecF}(u)$ $=$ $N_{vecF}(v)$ implies $ablau$ $=$ $ablav$ in dimension $geq$ 3 under some rank condition on derivatives of $vecF$ or the nonintegrability condition of contact form associated to $u$ or $v$. Note that in dimension 2 ($n=1),$ the above statement is no longer true. Inspired by an equation for the horizontal normal $N_{vecF}(u),$ we study the integrability for a unit vector to be the horizontal normal of a graph. We find a Codazzi-like equation together with this equation to form an integrability condition.

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