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Solvability of minimal graph equation under pointwise pinching condition for sectional curvatures

Differential Geometry 2016-06-01 v2

Abstract

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal graph equation on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold MM whose radial sectional curvatures outside a compact set satisfy an upper bound K(P)ϕ(ϕ1)r(x)2K(P)\le - \frac{\phi(\phi-1)}{r(x)^2} and a pointwise pinching condition K(P)CKK(P)|K(P)|\le C_K|K(P')| for some constants ϕ>1\phi>1 and CK1C_K\ge 1, where PP and PP' are any 2-dimensional subspaces of TxMT_xM containing the (radial) vector r(x)\nabla r(x) and r(x)=d(o,x)r(x)=d(o,x) is the distance to a fixed point oMo\in M. We solve the asymptotic Dirichlet problem with any continuous boundary data for dimensions n>4/ϕ+1n>4/\phi+1.

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@article{arxiv.1504.05378,
  title  = {Solvability of minimal graph equation under pointwise pinching condition for sectional curvatures},
  author = {Jean-Baptiste Casteras and Esko Heinonen and Ilkka Holopainen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05378},
  year   = {2016}
}

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To appear in J. Geom. Anal