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Stable capillary hypersurfaces in a half-space or a slab

Differential Geometry 2015-01-30 v3

Abstract

We study stable immersed capillary hypersurfaces in a domain B\mathcal B which is either a half-space or a slab in the Euclidean space Rn+1.\Bbb R^{n+1}. We prove that such a hypersurface Σ\Sigma is rotationally symmetric in the following cases: (1) n=2n=2, B\mathcal B is a slab and Σ\Sigma has genus zero, (2) n2n\geq 2, B\mathcal B is a slab, the angle of contact is π/2\pi/2 and each component of Σ\partial\Sigma is embedded, (3) n2,n\geq 2, B\mathcal B is a half-space, the angle of contact is <π/2<\pi/2 and each component of Σ\partial\Sigma is embedded. Moreover, in case (2), if not a right circular cylinder, the hypersurface has to be graphical over a domain in B.\partial\mathcal B. In case (3), the hypersurface is a spherical cap.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4241,
  title  = {Stable capillary hypersurfaces in a half-space or a slab},
  author = {Abdelhamid Ainouz and Rabah Souam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4241},
  year   = {2015}
}

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