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Min-max construction of two capillary embedded geodesics on Riemannian $2$-disks

Differential Geometry 2023-08-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the existence of two capillary embedded geodesics with a contact angle θ(0,π/2)\theta \in (0,\pi/2) on Riemannian 22-disks with strictly convex boundary, where the absence of a simple closed geodesic loop based on a point of boundary is given. In particular, our condition contains the cases of Riemannian 22-disks with strictly convex boundary, nonnegative Gaussian curvature and total geodesic curvature lower bound π\pi of the boundary. Moreover, by providing examples, we prove that our total geodesic curvature condition is sharp to admit a capillary embedded geodesic with a contact angle θ(0,π/2)\theta \in (0,\pi/2) under the nonnegative interior Gaussian curvature condition. We also prove the existence of Morse Index 11 and 22 capillary embedded geodesics for generic metric under the assumptions above.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14180,
  title  = {Min-max construction of two capillary embedded geodesics on Riemannian $2$-disks},
  author = {Dongyeong Ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14180},
  year   = {2023}
}

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