Some maximum principles for nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form with applications to capillary surfaces and to surfaces of constant mean curvature

DOI10.1016/0362-546X(79)90076-2zbMath0408.35015MaRDI QIDQ4195307

G. A. Philippin, Lawrence E. Payne

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

CurvatureMaximum PrinciplesNonlinear Elliptic EquationsCapillary SurfacesIsoperimetric InequalitiesHopf PrinciplesSurfaces of Constant Mean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60)

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