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

DOI10.4310/MRL.2008.V15.N1.A16MaRDI QIDQ932932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yng-Ing Lee, M.-T. Wang

Publication date 21 July 2008

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

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

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)

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.

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