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Regularity of minimal surfaces with capillary boundary conditions

Differential Geometry 2024-06-03 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove ε\varepsilon-regularity theorems for varifolds with capillary boundary condition in a Riemannian manifold. These varifolds were first introduced by Kagaya-Tonegawa \cite{KaTo}. We establish a uniform first variation control for all such varifolds (and free-boundary varifolds generally) satisfying a sharp density bound and prove that if a capillary varifold has bounded mean curvature and is close to a capillary half-plane with angle not equal to π2\tfrac{\pi}{2}, then it coincides with a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} properly embedded hypersurface. We apply our theorem to deduce regularity at a generic point along the boundary in the region where the density is strictly less than 11.

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@article{arxiv.2405.20796,
  title  = {Regularity of minimal surfaces with capillary boundary conditions},
  author = {Luigi De Masi and Nick Edelen and Carlo Gasparetto and Chao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20796},
  year   = {2024}
}