Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces with single valued projections on planar domains

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2010.10.021MaRDI QIDQ618279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcos Dajczer, Jaime Ripoll

Publication date 14 January 2011

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2549

zbMATH Keywords

constant mean curvaturehypersurfaceorthogonal projection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: A classical problem in constant mean curvature hypersurface theory is, for given $Hgeq0$, to determine whether a compact submanifold $Gamm{a}^{n-1}$ of codimension two in Euclidean space $R_{+}^{n+1}$, having a single valued orthogonal projection on $R^n$, is the boundary of a graph with constant mean curvature $H$ over a domain in $R^n$. A well known result of Serrin gives a sufficient condition, namely, $Gamma$ is contained in a right cylinder $C$ orthogonal to $R^n$ with inner mean curvature $H_{C}geqH$. In this paper, we prove existence and uniqueness if the orthogonal projection $L^{n-1}$ of $Gamma$ on $R^n$ has mean curvature $H_{L}geq-H$ and $Gamma$ is contained in a cone $K$ with basis in $R^n$ enclosing a domain in $R^n$ containing $L$ such that the mean curvature of $K$ satisfies $H_{K}geqH$. Our condition reduces to Serrin's when the vertex of the cone is infinite.

Review text

The authors deal with a problem in constant mean curvature theory of hypersurfaces in the real \(n\)-dimensional space. The question is under which conditions a compact submanifold of codimension 2 in the Euclidean space with a single-valued orthogonal projection on a hyperplane is a graph with constant mean curvature \(H\). A former result by J. Serrin yields one sufficient condition, namely that it is sufficient to demand the manifold to be contained in a right cylinder orthogonal to the hyperplane, with inner mean curvature greater than \(H\). The authors prove that a similar conclusion holds for a right cone instead of the right cylinder. In the limit case, the cone turns into Serrin's right cylinder.

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