Stability and Symmetry in the Navier Problem for the One-Dimensional Willmore Equation

DOI10.1137/07069033XzbMath1177.53038MaRDI QIDQ3398280

Hans-Christoph Grunau, Klaus Deckelnick

Publication date: 28 September 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry; stability; Morse index; Navier boundary conditions; Willmore equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J65: Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations

34B15: Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations

35B35: Stability in context of PDEs

53A05: Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces

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

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