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Area rigidity for the equatorial disk in the ball

Differential Geometry 2023-08-31 v3

Abstract

It is proved by Brendle in [4] that the equatorial disk DkD^k has least area among kk-dimensional free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean ball BnB^n. By comparing the excess of free boundary minimal surfaces with the excess of the associated cones over the boundary, we prove the existence of a gap for the area.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07408,
  title  = {Area rigidity for the equatorial disk in the ball},
  author = {Ezequiel Barbosa and Celso Viana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07408},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

12 pages. Revised. Lemma 3.1 is replaced by Theorem 3.1. Lemma 3.3 added

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