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Annular solutions to the partitioning problem in a ball

Differential Geometry 2022-12-16 v1

Abstract

For any nNn\in \mathbb{N}, n2n\geq 2, we construct a real analytic, one-parameter family of compact embedded CMC annuli with free boundary in the unit ball B3\mathbb{B}^3 of R3\mathbb{R}^3 with a prismatic symmetry group of order 4n4n. These examples give a negative answer to the uniqueness problem by Nitsche and Wente of whether any annular solution to the partitioning problem in the ball should be rotational.

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@article{arxiv.2212.07986,
  title  = {Annular solutions to the partitioning problem in a ball},
  author = {Alberto Cerezo and Isabel Fernandez and Pablo Mira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.07986},
  year   = {2022}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure

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