C^1, theory for the prescribed mean curvature equation with Dirichlet data

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Abstract: In this work we study solutions of the prescribed mean curvature equation over a general domain that do not necessarily attain the given boundary data. To such a solution, we can naturally associate a current with support in the closed cylinder above the domain and with boundary given by the prescribed boundary data and which inherits a natural minimizing property. Our main result is that its support is a C1,alpha manifold-with-boundary, with boundary equal to the prescribed boundary data, provided that both the initial domain and the prescribed boundary data are of class C1,alpha.


The author studies solutions of the prescribed mean curvature equation over a general domain that do not necessarily attain the given boundary data. It is well-known that, if the boundary of a domain \(\Omega\) in \({\mathbb R}^{n+1}\) is of class \(C^2\), then a solution \(u\) exists for any continuous function \(\phi\) defined on the boundary \(\partial \Omega\) satisfying \(u = \phi\) on \(\partial \Omega\) provided some inequality on the mean curvature of the boundary is given. Using a variational approach to the Dirichlet problem and looking for a minimum \(u\) of the functional \[ \mathcal F(v) = \int_\Omega \sqrt{1+|Dv|^2}\, dx + \int_\Omega\int_0^{v(x)} H(x, x_{n+1})\, dx dx_{n+1} + \int_{\partial \Omega} |v-\phi|\, dx \] for \(\phi\in C^0(\partial \Omega)\) and \(v \in \text{BV}(\Omega)\), the author gives a complete and general discussion on the regularity of the hypersurface obtained by taking the union of \(\{(x, u(x)): x\in \Omega\}\) and the part of \(\partial \Omega \times {\mathbb R}\) which is closed by \(\{(x, u(x)): x \in \partial \Omega\}\) and \(\{(x, \phi (x)): x \in \partial \Omega\}\). Here, \(\text{BV}(\Omega)\) denotes the space of all functions in \(L^1(\Omega)\) that have bounded variation. The author proves that, if \(\partial \Omega\) is \(C^{1, \alpha}\) and \(\phi\in C^{1,\alpha}(\partial \Omega)\), then this hypersurface is a \(C^{1, \alpha}\) manifold-with-boundary with boundary equal to the graph of \(\phi\). Furthermore, he shows that this manifold can be obtained as the \(C^{1, \alpha}\)-limit of graphs of \(C^{1, \alpha}\)-functions over \(\overline{\Omega}\).



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