The Perron method and the non-linear Plateau problem

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9742-0zbMATH Open1271.53056arXiv0912.2892OpenAlexW2963682431MaRDI QIDQ357841FDOQ357841

Authors: Andrew Clarke, Graham Smith 

Publication date: 13 August 2013

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a novel technique for solving the Plateau problem for constant curvature hypersurfaces based on recent work of Harvey and Lawson. This is illustrated by an existence theorem for hypersurfaces of constant Gaussian curvature in $Bbb{R}^{n+1}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2892

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zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvaturePerron methodPlateau's problemnon linear elliptic PDEsMonge-Ampère equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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• The non-linear Plateau problem in non-positively curved manifolds
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• An approximation method based on MRA for the quasi-Plateau problem
• The Plateau problem for marginally outer trapped surfaces

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