Existence of nonparametric solutions for a capillary problem in warped products

DOI10.2140/PJM.2014.269.407MaRDI QIDQ482392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jorge H. Lira, G. A. Wanderley

Publication date 30 December 2014

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2871

zbMATH Keywords

capillaryKilling graphsmean curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove that there exist solutions for a non-parametric capillary problem in a wide class of Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. In other terms, we prove the existence of Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature and prescribed contact angle along its boundary. These results may be useful for modelling stationary hypersurfaces under the influence of a non-homogeneous gravitational field defined over an arbitrary Riemannian manifold.

Review text

The authors study hypersurfaces of a Riemannian manifold endowed with a Killing vector field. This means that the ambient space can be seen as a warped product manifold, where one of the factors is \(1\)-dimensional. They recall the notion of Killing graph of a differential function, introduce a functional and its first variation formula. This is used to define a capillary-type equation which was also previously studied in [\textit{M. Dajczer} et al., Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 33, No. 2, 231--248 (2008; Zbl 1152.53046)] and [\textit{M. Dajczer} and \textit{J. H. de Lira}, J. Geom. Anal. 22, No. 3, 780--799 (2012; Zbl 1261.53058)]. The authors then study the existence of solutions given Neumann boundary conditions.

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