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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qi Ding , J. Jost , Y. L. Xin

It is well-known that a minimal graph of codimension one is stable, i.e. the second variation of the area functional is non-negative. This is no longer true for higher codimensional minimal graphs. In this note, we prove that a minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

Let $ \Omega \subsetneq \mathbf{R}^n\,(n\geq 2)$ be an unbounded convex domain. We study the minimal surface equation in $\Omega$ with boundary value given by the sum of a linear function and a bounded uniformly continuous function in $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Guosheng Jiang , Zhehui Wang , Jintian Zhu

Moser's Bernstein theorem \cite{moser61} says that an entire minimal graph of codimension 1 with bounded slope must be a hyperplane. An analogous result for arbitrary codimension is not true, by an example of Lawson-Osserman. Here, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Renan Assimos , Jürgen Jost

We prove that an anisotropic minimal graph over a half-space with flat boundary must itself be flat. This generalizes a result of Edelen-Wang to the anisotropic case. The proof uses only the maximum principle and ideas from fully nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Wenkui Du , Connor Mooney , Yang Yang , Jingze Zhu

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

Combining the tools of geometric analysis with properties of Jordan angles and angle space distributions, we derive a spherical and a Euclidean Bernstein theorem for minimal submanifolds of arbitrary dimension and codimension, under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-26 J. Jost , Y. L. Xin , Ling Yang

We prove that, in every dimension, Lipschitz nonlocal minimal surfaces are smooth. Also, we extend to the nonlocal setting a famous theorem of De Giorgi stating that the validity of Bernstein's theorem in dimension $n+1$ is a consequence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Alessio Figalli , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper, we consider a Generalized Bernstein Theorem for a type of generalized minimal surfaces, namely minimal Plateau surfaces. We show that if an orientable minimal Plateau surface is stable and has quadratic area growth in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Gaoming Wang

We prove an existence theorem for the sliding boundary variant of the Plateau problem for $2$-dimensional sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The simplest case of sufficient condition is when $n=3$ and the boundary $\Gamma$ is a finite disjoint union…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Guy David , Camille Labourie

Solving the Plateau problem means to find the surface with minimal area among all surfaces with a given boundary. Part of the problem actually consists of giving a suitable definition to the notions of 'surface', 'area' and 'boundary'. In…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Edoardo Cavallotto

We survey Bernstein-type theorems for graphical surfaces in the Euclidean space and the Lorentz-Minkowski space. More specifically, we explain several proofs of the Bernstein theorem for minimal graphs in the Euclidean 3-space. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yu Kawakami

In this note, we show that the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in any codimension is unique in the space of distance-decreasing maps. This follows as a corollary of the following stability theorem: if a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yng-Ing Lee , Mu-Tao Wang

We develop a regularity and compactness theory for stable capillary minimal hypersurfaces in the half-space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ with contact angle $\theta \in (0,\pi)$ and dimension $n \geq 2$. As a consequence, we obtain the generalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Gaoming Wang , Xuwen Zhang

We develop a min-max theory for the construction of capillary surfaces in 3-manifolds with smooth boundary. In particular, for a generic set of ambient metrics, we prove the existence of nontrivial, smooth, almost properly embedded surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chao Li , Xin Zhou , Jonathan J. Zhu

We study existence of minimisers to the least gradient problem on a strictly convex domain in two settings. On a bounded domain, we allow the boundary data to be discontinuous and prove existence of minimisers in terms of the Hausdorff…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Wojciech Górny

We show that if $(X,d,m)$ is an RCD(K,N) space and $u \in W^{1,1}_{loc}(X)$ is a solution of the minimal surface equation, then $u$ is harmonic on its graph (which has a natural metric measure space structure). If K=0 this allows to obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Alessandro Cucinotta

We give an alternative proof of the Schoen--Simon--Yau curvature estimates and associated Bernstein-type theorems (1975), and extend the original result by including the case of $6$-dimensional (stable minimal) immersions. The key step is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Costante Bellettini

For a proper immersed minimal disk in $\bf{R}^N$ with quadratic area growth, we show that any harmonic function whose negative part grows at a slow sub-linear rate is constant. This leads to a higher codimensional Bernstein theorem for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

Minimal surfaces and domain walls play important roles in various contexts of spacetime physics as well as material science. In this paper, we first review the Bernstein conjecture, which asserts that a plane is the only globally well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Gary W. Gibbons , Kei-ichi Maeda , Umpei Miyamoto
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