THE MEAN CURVATURE EQUATION ON SEMIDIRECT PRODUCTS : HEIGHT ESTIMATES AND SCHERK-LIKE GRAPHS

Abstract: On the ambient space of a Lie group with a left invariant metric that is isometric and isomorphic to a semidirect product

m a t h b b R^{2} t i m e s_{A} m a t h b b R

, we consider a domain

O m e g a s u b s e t e q m a t h b b R^{2} t i m e s_{A} 0

and vertical

p i

-graphs over

O m e g a

and study the partial differential equation a function

u : O m e g a i g h t a r r o w m a t h b b R

must satisfy in order to have prescribed mean curvature

H

. Using techniques from quasilinear elliptic equations we prove that if a

p i -

graph has non-negative mean curvature, then it satisfy some uniform height estimates that depend on

O m e g a

and on a parameter

a l p h a

, given a priori. When

e x t t r a c e (A) > 0

, these estimates imply that the oscillation of a minimal graph assuming the same constant value

n

along the boundary tends to zero when

n i g h t a r r o w + i n f t y

and goes to

+ i n f t y

if

n i g h t a r r o w - i n f t y

. Furthermore, we use some of the estimates, allied with techniques from Killing graphs, to prove the existence of minimal

p i -

graphs assuming the value

0

along a piecewise smooth curve

g a m m a

with endpoints

p_{1},, p_{2}

and having as boundary

g a m m a c u p (p_{1} i m e s [0,, + i n f t y)) c u p (p_{2} i m e s [0,, + i n f t y))

.

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