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We show that a capillary surface in a solid cone, that is, a surface that has constant mean curvature and the boundary of surface meets the boundary of the cone with a constant angle, is radially graphical if the mean curvature is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this note, we observe that if $B$ is a ball in a Euclidean space with dimension $n$, $n\geq3$, then a stable CMC hypersurface $\Sigma$ with free boundary in $B$ satisfies \[ nA\leq L\leq nA\left( \frac{1+\sqrt{1+4(n+1)H^2}}{2} \right)\,,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Ezequiel Barbosa

We consider the problem of finding on a given Euclidean domain $\Omega$ of dimension $n \geq 3$ a complete conformally flat metric whose Schouten curvature $A$ satisfies some equation of the form $f(\lambda(-A)) = 1$. This generalizes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Maria del Mar González , YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen

Let $f:[0,+\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ be a (locally) Lipschitz function and $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ a $C^{1,\alpha}$ domain whose boundary is unbounded and connected. If there exists a positive bounded solution to the overdetermined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Antonio Ros , David Ruiz , Pieralberto Sicbaldi

The classical Serrin's overdetermined theorem states that a $C^2$ bounded domain, which admits a function with constant Laplacian that satisfies both constant Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, must necessarily be a ball. While…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Alessio Figalli , Yi Ru-Ya Zhang

In this note we construct smooth bounded domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$, other than disks, for which the overdetermined problem $$ \left\{ \begin{alignedat}{2} \Delta u + \lambda u &= 0 &\qquad& \text{ in } \Omega, \newline u &= b…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Miles H. Wheeler

We prove that for every $n \ge 2$, there exists a pseudoconvex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ such that $\mathfrak{c}^0(\Omega) \subsetneq \mathfrak{c}^1(\Omega)$, where $\mathfrak{c}^k(\Omega)$ denotes the core of $\Omega$ with…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Tobias Harz

A sequence of constant mean curvature surfaces $\Sigma_j$ with mean curvature $H_j \to \infty$ in a three-dimensional manifold $M$ condenses to a compact and connected graph $\Gamma$ consisting of a finite union of curves if $\Sigma_j$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Adrian Butscher

In this paper, we consider the existence of mean curvature type hypersurfaces with prescribed gradient image. Let $\Omega$ and $\tilde{\Omega}$ be uniformly convex bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary. We show that there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Jiguang Bao , Rongli Huang , Qinfeng Jiang

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial contractible domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{S}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, such that the overdetermined elliptic problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\varepsilon\Delta_{g} u +u-u^{p}=0 &\mbox{in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-08 David Ruiz , Pieralberto Sicbaldi , Jing Wu

In this paper we establish a gap theorem for the complex geometry of smoothly bounded convex domains which informally says that if the complex geometry near the boundary is close to the complex geometry of the unit ball, then the domain…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Andrew Zimmer

In this paper, firstly, we show the existence of a compact embedded constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurface $\Sigma_1$ in $\mathbb{S}^{2n}$ of the type $S^{n-1} \times S^{n-1} \times S^{1}$. Moreover, the hypersurface $\Sigma_1$ exhibits…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Chuqi Huang , Guoxin Wei

In this paper, we prove gap results for constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces. Firstly, we find a natural inequality for CMC surfaces which imply convexity for distance function. We then show that if $\Sigma$ is a complete, properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Ezequiel Barbosa , Marcos P. Cavalcante , Edno Pereira

Given any $n \geq 2$, we show that if $\Omega \subsetneq \mathbb{R}^n$ is an open convex domain (e.g. a half-space), and $u : \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ is a solution to the minimal surface equation which agrees with a linear function on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Nick Edelen , Zhehui Wang

Serrin's symmetry theorem shows that the classical overdetermined torsion problem forces the domain to be a ball. Extending this rigidity statement to merely Lipschitz (and more generally rough) domains in the weak formulation has been a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Alessio Figalli , Yi Ru-Ya Zhang

Liebmann's Theorem asserts that a compact, connected, convex surface with constant mean curvature (CMC) in the Euclidean space must be a totally umbilical sphere. In this article we extend Liebmann's result to hypersurfaces with boundary.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Flávio França Cruz , Barbara Nelli

We establish the existence of a non-trivial, branched immersion of a closed Riemann surface $\Sigma$ with constant mean curvature (CMC) $H$ into any closed, orientable 3-manifold $\mathcal{M}$, for almost every prescribed value of $H$. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Filippo Gaia , Xuanyu Li

In this work we address the question of the existence of nonradial domains inside a nonconvex cone for which a mixed boundary overdetermined problem admits a solution. Our approach is variational, and consists in proving the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Alessandro Iacopetti , Filomena Pacella , Tobias Weth

A property of smooth convex domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is that if two points on the boundary $x, y \in \partial \Omega$ are close to each other, then their normal vectors $n(x), n(y)$ point roughly in the same direction and this…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Stefan Steinerberger

In this paper we aim at characterizing the gauge balls in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$ as the only domains where suitable overdetermined problems of Serrin type can be solved. We discuss a one parameter family of overdetermined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Vittorio Martino , Giulio Tralli