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One-sided curvature estimates for H-disks

Differential Geometry 2015-11-04 v2

Abstract

In this paper we prove an extrinsic one-sided curvature estimate for disks embedded in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with constant mean curvature which is independent of the value of the constant mean curvature. We apply this extrinsic one-sided curvature estimate in [24] to prove to prove a weak chord arc type result for these disks. In Section 4 we apply this weak chord arc result to obtain an intrinsic version of the one-sided curvature estimate for disks embedded in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with constant mean curvature. In a natural sense, these one-sided curvature estimates generalize respectively, the extrinsic and intrinsic one-sided curvature estimates for minimal disks embedded in R3\mathbb{R}^3 given by Colding and Minicozzi in Theorem 0.2 of [8] and in Corollary 0.8 of [9].

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@article{arxiv.1408.5233,
  title  = {One-sided curvature estimates for H-disks},
  author = {William H. Meeks and Giuseppe Tinaglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5233},
  year   = {2015}
}

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