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Area bounds for minimal surfaces that pass through a prescribed point in a ball

Differential Geometry 2017-01-30 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let Σ\Sigma be a kk-dimensional minimal submanifold in the nn-dimensional unit ball BnB^n which passes through a point yBny \in B^n and satisfies ΣBn\partial \Sigma \subset \partial B^n. We show that the kk-dimensional area of Σ\Sigma is bounded from below by Bk(1y2)k2|B^k| \, (1-|y|^2)^{\frac{k}{2}}. This settles a question left open by the work of Alexander and Osserman in 1973.

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@article{arxiv.1607.04631,
  title  = {Area bounds for minimal surfaces that pass through a prescribed point in a ball},
  author = {S. Brendle and P. K. Hung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04631},
  year   = {2017}
}

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To appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis