Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

G. David - C. Labourie

An existence theorem for sliding minimal sets

created by labourie on 03 Oct 2025
modified on 06 Oct 2025

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Inserted: 3 oct 2025
Last Updated: 6 oct 2025

Year: 2025

ArXiv: 2510.01905 PDF

Abstract:

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 of smooth closed curves contained in the boundary of a convex body, but the main point of our sufficient condition is to prevent the limits in measure of a minimizing sequence to have singularities of type $\mathbb{Y}$ along $\Gamma$.


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