A Bernstein Type Theorem for Minimal Graphs over Convex Domains

DOI10.4171/AIHPC/18MaRDI QIDQ6347142arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Nick Edelen, Zhehui Wang

Publication date 15 August 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/AIHPC/18

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

arXiv classification

math.APmath.DG

Abstract: Given any $ngeq2$, we show that if $Omegasubsetneqmathbb{R}^n$ is an open convex domain (e.g. a half-space), and $u:OmegaomathbbR$ is a solution to the minimal surface equation which agrees with a linear function on $partialOmega$, then $u$ must itself be linear.

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