On the existence of foliations by solutions to the exterior Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: Given an exterior domain

O m e g a

with

C^{2, a l p h a}

boundary in

m a t h b b R^{n}

,

n g e q 3

, we obtain a

1

-parameter family

u_{g a m m a} i n C^{i n f t y} l e f t (O m e g a i g h t)

,

l e f t v e r t g a m m a i g h t v e r t l e q p i / 2

, of solutions of the minimal surface equation such that, if

l e f t v e r t g a m m a i g h t v e r t < p i / 2

,

u_{g a m m a} i n C^{i n f t y} l e f t (O m e g a i g h t) c a p C^{2, a l p h a} l e f t (o v e r l i n e O m e g a i g h t)

,

u_{g a m m a} |_{p a r t i a l O m e g a} = 0

with

m a x_{p a r t i a l O m e g a} l e f t V e r t a b l a u_{g a m m a} i g h t V e r t = a n g a m m a

and, if

l e f t v e r t g a m m a i g h t v e r t = p i / 2

, the graph of

u_{g a m m a}

is contained in a

C^{1, 1}

manifold

M_{g a m m a} s u b s e t o v e r l i n e O m e g a i m e s m a t h b b R

with

p a r t i a l M_{g a m m a} = p a r t i a l O m e g a

. Each of these functions is bounded and asymptotic to a constant [ c_{gamma}=lim_{leftVert x ightVert ightarrowinfty}u_{gamma}left( x ight) . ] The mappings

g a m m a i g h t a r r o w u_{g a m m a} l e f t (x i g h t)

(for fixed

x i n O m e g a

) and

g a m m a i g h t a r r o w c_{g a m m a}

are strictly increasing and bounded. The graphs of these functions foliate the open subset of

m a t h b b R^{n + 1}

[ left{ left( x,z ight) inOmega imesmathbb{R} ext{, }-u_{pi /2}left( x ight) <z<u_{pi/2}left( x ight) ight} . ] Moreover, if

satisfies the interior sphere condition of maximal radius

h o

and if

p a r t i a l O m e g a

is contained in a ball of minimal radius

v a r r h o

, then [ left[ 0,sigma_{n} ho ight] subsetleft[ 0,c_{pi/2} ight] subsetleft[ 0,sigma_{n}varrho ight] , ] where [ sigma_{n}=int_{1}^{infty}frac{dt}{sqrt{t^{2left( n-1 ight) }-1}}. ] One of the above inclusions is an equality if and only if

h o = v a r r h o

,

O m e g a

is the exterior of a ball of radius

h o

and the solutions are radial.

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