Constructing graphs over $R^n$ with small prescribed mean-curvature
Analysis of PDEs
2015-08-18 v5 Mathematical Physics
Differential Geometry
math.MP
Abstract
In this paper a convergent series expansion is constructed to solve the prescribed mean curvature equation for n-dimensional hypersurfaces in n+1 dimensional Euclidean or Minkowskian space(time) which are graphs of a smooth real function u, and whose mean curvature function H is not too large in Hoelder norm, and integrable. Our approach is inspired by the Maxwell-Born-Infeld theory of electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime, for which our method yields the first systematic way of explicitly computing the electrostatic potential u for regular charge densities proportional to H and small Born parameter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.1435,
title = {Constructing graphs over $R^n$ with small prescribed mean-curvature},
author = {Holly Carley and Michael Kiessling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1435},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
28 pages, LaTeX, To appear in Mathematical Physics, Analysis, and Geometry (2015)