Stable constant mean curvature surfaces with circular boundary

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04950-3MaRDI QIDQ4226342zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luis J. Alías, Rafael López, Bennett Palmer

Publication date 25 January 1999

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-99-04950-3

zbMATH Keywords

constant mean curvaturespherical capsurface of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Review text

The following theorem is proved. Let \(D\) be the unit disk in the complex plane and let \(x: D\to \mathbb{R}^3\) be a conformal immersion with constant mean curvature \(H\). Assume that \(x\) is stable, and that \(x(\partial D)=S^1\), where \(S^1\) is a circle in the plane \(x_3=0\). Then, \(x(D)\) is a spherical cap of radius \(1/|H|\). The idea of the proof is to take a Killing vector field in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), generated by a rotation about the vertical axis \(x_3\), and consider its normal component \(\psi\) along \(x(D)\). Then \(\psi\) satisfies the Jacobi equation, vanishes on \(\partial D\), and satisfies the ``volume constraint \(\int_D\psi dA=0\). A delicate argument shows that the normal derivative of \(\psi\) vanishes at least three times. This, and the stability condition, imply that \(\psi\) vanishes everywhere. Thus, \(x(D)\) is a rotation surface. The same argument works for surfaces in \(S^3\) and \(H^3\).

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