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Minimal Surface Equation and Bernstein Property on RCD spaces

Differential Geometry 2025-03-12 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We show that if (X,d,m)(X,d,m) is an RCD(K,N) space and uWloc1,1(X)u \in W^{1,1}_{loc}(X) is a solution of the minimal surface equation, then uu is harmonic on its graph (which has a natural metric measure space structure). If K=0 this allows to obtain an Harnack inequality for uu, which in turn implies the Bernstein property, meaning that any positive solution to the minimal surface equation must be constant. As an application, we obtain oscillation estimates and a Bernstein Theorem for minimal graphs in products M×RM \times \mathbb{R}, where MM is a smooth manifold (possibly weighted and with boundary) with non-negative Ricci curvature

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@article{arxiv.2403.02406,
  title  = {Minimal Surface Equation and Bernstein Property on RCD spaces},
  author = {Alessandro Cucinotta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02406},
  year   = {2025}
}
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