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Convexity of constant mean curvature graphs in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with planar boundary

Differential Geometry 2020-04-21 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the Dirichlet problem for a graph Σ\Sigma in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} with normalized constant mean curvature H>0H>0 and planar boundary Γ=Ω\Gamma=\partial \Omega. Our main result is that the optimal solvability condition, namely that the normalized mean curvature hh of Γ\Gamma satisfies hHh\geq H, also suffices when Ω\Omega is strictly convex, to prove the strict convexity of Σ\Sigma.

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@article{arxiv.1910.05809,
  title  = {Convexity of constant mean curvature graphs in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with planar boundary},
  author = {Joel Spruck and Liming Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.05809},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Need to fix some error in the paper. In the last step of the proof, the hypersurface of the minimal principle curvature equal to zero may be tangent to the boundary of the domain