Mean value surfaces with prescribed curvature form

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2004.03.001MaRDI QIDQ2569347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yolanda Perdomo G., Håkan Hedenmalm

Publication date 18 October 2005

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406344

zbMATH Keywords

isothermal metricsmean value propertyprescribed curvature form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: The Gaussian curvature of a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold is uniquely determined by the choice of the metric. The formulas for computing the curvature in terms of components of the metric, in isothermal coordinates, involve the Laplacian operator and therefore, the problem of finding a Riemannian metric for a given curvature form may be viewed as a potential theory problem. This problem has, generally speaking, a multitude of solutions. To specify the solution uniquely, we ask that the metric have the mean value property for harmonic functions with respect to some given point. This means that we assume that the surface is simply connected and that it has a smooth boundary. In terms of the so-called metric potential, we are looking for a unique smooth solution to a nonlinear fourth order elliptic partial differential equation with second order Cauchy data given on the boundary. We find a simple condition on the curvature form which ensures that there exists a smooth mean value surface solution. It reads: the curvature form plus half the curvature form for the hyperbolic plane (with the same coordinates) should be $le0$. The same analysis leads to results on the question of whether the canonical divisors in weighted Bergman spaces over the unit disk have extraneous zeros. Numerical work suggests that the above condition on the curvature form is essentially sharp. Our problem is in spirit analogous to the classical Minkowski problem, where the sphere supplies the chart coordinates via the Gauss map.

Review text

The authors consider the following problem: Given a function in a disc in the two-plane, find a Riemannian isothermal metric in the disc such that the Gaussian curvature of the metric equals to the given function. This problem has many solutions and the authors study special solutions meeting the mean curvature property for harmonic functions with respect to some point. They find a condition for curvature which ensures that there exists a solution to the problem and moreover this solution is unique. They also expose some examples of curvature for which this problem is unsolvable.

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