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A Sharp Height Estimate for the Spacelike Constant Mean Curvature Graph in the Lorentz-Minkowski Space

Analysis of PDEs 2017-06-14 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, based on the local comparison principle in [12], we study the local behavior of the difference of two spacelike graphs in a neighborhood of a second contact point. Then we apply it to the constant mean curvature equation in 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space L3\mathbb{L}^3 and get the uniqueness of critical point for the solution of such equation over convex domain, which is an analogue of the result in [28]. Last, by this uniqueness, we obtain a minimum principle for a functional depending on the solution and its gradient. This gives us a sharp gradient estimate for the solution, which leads to a sharp height estimate.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02734,
  title  = {A Sharp Height Estimate for the Spacelike Constant Mean Curvature Graph in the Lorentz-Minkowski Space},
  author = {Jingyong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02734},
  year   = {2017}
}