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We study a prescribed mean curvature problem where we seek a surface whose mean curvature vector coincides with the normal component of a given vector field. We prove that the problem has a solution near a graphical minimal surface if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Yuki Tsukamoto

We consider the motion by mean curvature of an $n$-dimensional graph over a time-dependent domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, intersecting $\mathbb{R}^n$ at a constant angle. In the general case, we prove local existence for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-30 Alex Freire

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for a class of prescribed curvature equations in Minkowski space. We prove the existence of smooth spacelike hypersurfaces with a class of prescribed curvature and general boundary data based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Mengru Guo , Heming Jiao

We prove some rigidity and classification results for graphs with prescribed mean curvature and locally constant Dirichlet and Neumann data, for instance as they appear in capillarity problems. We consider domains in Riemannian manifolds,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Giulio Colombo , Alberto Farina , Marco Magliaro , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

We prove index estimates for closed and free boundary CMC surfaces in certain $3$-dimensional submanifolds of some Euclidean space. When the mean curvature is large enough we are able to prove that the index of a CMC surface in an arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Nicolau S. Aiex , Han Hong

We investigate the boundary behavior of variational solutions of Dirichlet problems for prescribed mean curvature equations at smooth boundary points where certain boundary curvature conditions are satisfied (which preclude the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Mozhgan , Entekhabi , Kirk E. Lancaster

Given an unbounded domain $\Omega$ of a Hadamard manifold $M$, it makes sense to consider the problem of finding minimal graphs with prescribed continuous data on its cone-topology-boundary, i.e., on its ordinary boundary together with its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Miriam Telichevesky

In this note we discuss graphs over a domain $\Omega\subset N^2$ in the product manifold $N^2\times \mathbb{R}$. Here $N^2$ is a complete Riemannian surface and $\Omega$ has peice-wise smooth boundary. Let $\gamma \subset\partial\Omega$ be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Hengyu Zhou

It is well known that the Serrin condition is a necessary condition for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for the prescribed mean curvature equation in bounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with certain regularity. In this paper we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Yunelsy N Alvarez , Ricardo Sá Earp

We consider an overdetermined problem for a two phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We look for domains such that the solution $u$ of a Dirichlet boundary value problem also satisfies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Lorenzo Cavallina

We consider the motion by mean curvature of an $n$-dimensional graph over a time-dependent domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, intersecting $\mathbb{R}^n$ at a constant angle. In the general case, we prove local existence for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Alexandre Freire

There are many non-trivial entire spacelike graphs with constant mean curvature $H$ (CMC $H$, for short) in the isotropic 3-space $\mathbb{I}^3$. In this paper, we show a value distribution theorem of Gaussian curvature of complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Shintaro Akamine , Wonjoo Lee , Seong-Deog Yang

In this paper, we mainly investigate the set of critical points associated to solutions of mean curvature equation with zero Dirichlet boundary condition in a strictly convex domain and a nonconvex domain respectively. Firstly, we deduce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Haiyun Deng , Hairong Liu , Long Tian

The maximal graph Dirichlet problem asks whether there exists a spacelike graph, in a semi-Euclidean space, with a given boundary and with mean curvature everywhere zero. We prove the existence of solutions to this problem under certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Benjamin Stuart Thorpe

Let $\Omega\subset\r^n$ be a bounded mean convex domain. If $\alpha<0$, we prove the existence and uniqueness of classical solutions of the Dirichlet problem in $\Omega$ for the $\alpha$-singular minimal surface equation with arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Rafael López

This survey describes some recent rigidity results obtained by the authors for the prescribed mean curvature problem on graphs $u : M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Emphasis is put on minimal, CMC and capillary graphs, as well as on graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Bruno Bianchini , Giulio Colombo , Marco Magliaro , Luciano Mari , Patrizia Pucci , Marco Rigoli

This article studies the Dirichlet problem for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds with \textit{mean concave} boundary in the sense that the mean curvature of the boundary is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Rirong Yuan

We study the classification of immersed constant mean curvature (CMC) spheres in the homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifold Sol_3, i.e., the only Thurston 3-dimensional geometry where this problem remains open. Our main result states that, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-12 Benoit Daniel , Pablo Mira

We prove the existence and uniqueness of radial graphs over a given domain of $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ having boundary on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ and whose mean curvature at every point equals a prescribed positive function satisfying suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-10 Paolo Caldiroli , Giovanni Gullino

It is developed the theory of the boundary behavior of homeomorphic solutions of the Beltrami equations ${\bar{\partial}}f=\mu\,{\partial}f$ of the Sobolev class $W^{1,1}_{\rm loc}$ with respect to prime ends of domains. On this basis,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Denis Kovtonyuk , Igor' Petkov , Vladimir Ryazanov