A geometric maximum principle for surfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.4171/ZAA/340MaRDI QIDQ582604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ulrich Dierkes

Publication date 1989

Published in Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/zaa/340

zbMATH Keywords

boundarymean curvaturesurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Review text

Let F be a surface in three-dimensional Riemannian space \({\mathcal M}\). Suppose F lies in some subset \(Q\subset M\). The author gives conditions on the mean curvature of F and on the mean curvature of the boundary \(\partial Q\) under which F must lie strictly inside Q.

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