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Symmetries in some extremal problems between two parallel hyperplanes

Differential Geometry 2016-01-13 v1

Abstract

Let MM be a compact hypersurface with boundary M=D1D2\partial M=\partial D_1 \cup \partial D_2, D1Π1\partial D_1 \subset \Pi _1, D2Π2\partial D_2 \subset \Pi _2, Π1\Pi_1 and Π2\Pi _2 two parallel hyperplanes in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} (n2n \geq 2). Suppose that MM is contained in the slab determined by these hyperplanes and that the mean curvature HH of MM depends only on the distance uu to Πi\Pi _i, i=1,2i=1,2. We prove that these hypersurfaces are symmetric to a perpendicular orthogonal to Πi\Pi _i, i=1,2i=1,2, under different conditions imposed on the boundary of hypersurfaces on the parallel planes: (i) when the angle of contact between MM and Πi\Pi _i, i=1,2i=1,2 is constant; (ii) when u/η\partial u / \partial \eta is a non-increasing function of the mean curvature of the boundary, η\partial \eta the inward normal; (iii) when u/η\partial u / \partial \eta has a linear dependency on the distance to a fixed point inside the body that hypersurface englobes; (iv) when Di\partial D_i are symmetric to a perpendicular orthogonal to Πi\Pi _i, i=1,2i=1,2.

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@article{arxiv.1601.02959,
  title  = {Symmetries in some extremal problems between two parallel hyperplanes},
  author = {Monica Moulin Ribeiro Merkle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02959},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages

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