The Perron method and the non-linear Plateau problem

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9742-0MaRDI QIDQ357841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Clarke, Graham Smith

Publication date 13 August 2013

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2892

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvatureMonge-Ampère equationnon linear elliptic PDEsPerron methodPlateau's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We describe a novel technique for solving the Plateau problem for constant curvature hypersurfaces based on recent work of Harvey and Lawson. This is illustrated by an existence theorem for hypersurfaces of constant Gaussian curvature in $Bbb{R}^{n+1}$.

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• The non-linear Plateau problem in non-positively curved manifolds

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