English

Symmetry and Rigidity of Minimal Surfaces with Plateau-like Singularities

Analysis of PDEs 2020-12-02 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

By employing the method of moving planes in a novel way we extend some classical symmetry and rigidity results for smooth minimal surfaces to surfaces that have singularities of the sort typically observed in soap films.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.01784,
  title  = {Symmetry and Rigidity of Minimal Surfaces with Plateau-like Singularities},
  author = {Jacob Bernstein and Francesco Maggi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.01784},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

30 pages; an appendix about a maximum principle for geodesic nets has been added