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We consider a Dirichlet problem for the mean curvature operator in the Minkowski spacetime, obtaining a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a spacelike solution, with prescribed mean curvature, which is the graph of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Rossella Bartolo , Erasmo Caponio , Alessio Pomponio

In this paper, by considering a special case of the spacelike mean curvature flow investigated by Li and Salavessa [6], we get a condition for the existence of smooth solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Jing Mao

We study the Dirichlet problem for a graph $\Sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normalized constant mean curvature $H>0$ and planar boundary $\Gamma=\partial \Omega$. Our main result is that the optimal solvability condition, namely that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Joel Spruck , Liming Sun

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 solve the Dirichlet problem with continuous boundary data for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation on a uniformly convex, bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Arunima Bhattacharya

The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to establish sufficient conditions under which the mean curvature flow supported on a hypersphere with exterior Dirichlet boundary exists globally in time and converges to a minimal surface,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

The aim of this paper is to give two uniqueness results for the Dirichlet problem associated to the constant mean curvature equation. We study constant mean curvature graphs over strips of R^2. The proofs are based on height estimates and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laurent Mazet

We assign a measure to an upper semicontinuous function which is subharmonic with respect to the mean curvature operator, so that it agrees with the mean curvature of its graph when the function is smooth. We prove that the measure is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Qiuyi Dai , Neil Trudinger , Xujia Wang

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

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

In this paper, we consider the existence of constant mean curvature 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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Rongli Huang , Dayan Wei , Yunhua Ye

We present an explicit formula for the mean curvature of a unit vector field on a Riemannian manifold, using a special but natural frame. As applications, we treat some known and new examples of minimal unit vector fields. We also give an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yampolsky

We propose an alternative condition for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation that applies to non-mean convex domains. We introduce a structural condition, obtained from a second-order ordinary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Ari J. Aiolfi , Giovanni da Silva Nunes , Jaime Ripoll , Lisandra Sauer , Rodrigo Soares

We study the sub-Finsler prescribed mean curvature equation, associated to a strictly convex body $K_0 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{2n}$, for $t$-graphs on a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$. When the prescribed datum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Gianmarco Giovannardi , Andrea Pinamonti , Julián Pozuelo , Simone Verzellesi

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

We consider the numerical approximation of surfaces of prescribed Gaussian curvature via the solution of a fully nonlinear partial differential equation of Monge-Amp\`ere type. These surfaces need not be continuous up to the boundary of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Brittany D. Froese

We establish convergence results for a spatial semidiscretization of Mean Curvature Flow (MCF) for surfaces with fixed boundaries. Our analysis is based on Huisken's evolution equations for the mean curvature and the normal vector, enabling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Bárbara Solange Ivaniszyn , Pedro Morin , M. Sebastián Pauletti

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for $f$-minimal graphs in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds $M$. $f$-minimal hypersurfaces are natural generalizations of self-shrinkers which play a crucial role in the study of mean curvature flow. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Esko Heinonen , Ilkka Holopainen

In this paper, we prove the existence of classical solutions of the Dirichlet problem for a class of quasi-linear elliptic equations on unbounded domains like a cone or a U-type domain. This problem comes from the study of mean curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Huai-Yu Jian , Hong-Jie Ju

This article concerns a natural generalization of the classical asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space. We prove the existence of a smooth complete hypersurface of constant scalar curvature with a prescribed asymptotic boundary at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Bin Wang