A note on the stability and uniqueness for solutions to the minimal surface system

DOI10.4310/MRL.2008.V15.N1.A16zbMATH Open1218.53068arXivmath/0702303OpenAlexW2137835366WikidataQ125877771 ScholiaQ125877771MaRDI QIDQ932932FDOQ932932

Authors: Yng-Ing Lee, M.-T. Wang 

Publication date: 21 July 2008

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note, we show that the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in any codimension is unique in the space of distance-decreasing maps. This follows as a corollary of the following stability theorem: if a minimal submanifold $Sigma$ is the graph of a (strictly) distance-decreasing map, then $Sigma$ is (strictly) stable. It is known that a minimal graph of codimension one is stable without assuming the distance-decreasing condition. We give another criterion for the stability in terms of the two-Jacobians of the map which in particular covers the codimension one case. All theorems are proved in the more general setting for minimal maps between Riemannian manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702303

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problemminimal submanifoldstable minimal submanifolddistance decreasingshort map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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