Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

G. De Philippis - A. De Rosa

The anisotropic Min-Max theory: Existence of anisotropic minimal and CMC surfaces

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Inserted: 23 apr 2022
Last Updated: 9 dec 2023

Journal: Comm. Pure App. Math.
Year: 2023

Abstract:

We prove the existence of nontrivial closed surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature with respect to elliptic integrands in closed smooth $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. The constructed min-max surfaces are smooth with at most one singular point. The constant anisotropic mean curvature can be fixed to be any real number. In particular, we solve a conjecture of Allard [Invent. Math.,1983] in dimension $3$.


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