Anisotropic umbilic points and Hopf's theorem for surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2010.59.4164MaRDI QIDQ3577977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miyuki Koiso, Bennett Palmer

Publication date 13 July 2010

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1986

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropicmean curvatureparametric elliptic functionalWulff shape

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We show that for elliptic parametric functionals whose Wulff shape is smooth and has strictly positive curvature, any surface with constant anisotropic mean curvature which is a topological sphere is a rescaling of the Wulff shape.

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