scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1547402
The author proves the existence of a nonparametric minimal surface of annulus type, which contains a prescribed Jordan curve \(\Gamma\) given as a generalized graph over a convex projection \(P(\Gamma)\) in the \((x,y)\) plane, and which has a free boundary determined by a transversality condition on a vertical cylinder \(S\) whose projection \(P(S)\) is a closed polygon inside \(P (\Gamma)\). The existence of minimal surfaces under such conditions was proved by R. Curant; the new feature of the present investigation is the proof that under the hypotheses any such surface projects simply onto the base plane. As the author points out, this property cannot be inferred trivially from known results. The convexity hypothesis on \(P(\Gamma)\) can be shown at least in some configurations to be necessary; the author motivates the requirement by pointing out that for the Dirichlet Problem in a non-convex disk-type domain there exist (arbitrarily small) boundary data for which no graph solution exists. The reviewer remarks that the author is only partially correct in attributing that observation to Jenkins and Serrin. The possibility of choosing data for which no solution exists was initially shown by the reviewer [J. Anal. Math. 14, 139-160 (1965; Zbl 0163.34604) Theorem 4a]; Jenkins and Serrin later improved that result by showing that arbitrarily small data can suffice. The author obtains her theorem by using the special properties of the Gauss map, and by exploiting ideas in papers of Hildebrandt and Sauvigny and of Y. W. Chen. She announces another paper [Arch. Math. 77, 278-288 (2001; Zbl 1009.53010)], in which she demonstrated that the free trace on \(S\) can attach along an entire segment of an edge, and thus need not be a graph over \(P(S)\) (edge-creeping).
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