Capillary surfaces in a cone
classification
🧮 math.DG
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conesurfaceboundarycapillaryconstantcurvaturemeanalexandrov
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We show that a capillary surface in a solid cone, that is, a surface that has constant mean curvature and the boundary of surface meets the boundary of the cone with a constant angle, is radially graphical if the mean curvature is non-positive with respect to the Gauss map pointing toward the domain bounded by the surface and the boundary of the cone. In the particular case that the cone is circular, we prove that the surface is a spherical cap or a planar disc. The proofs are based on an extension of the Alexandrov reflection method by using inversions about spheres.
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