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In this note, we study minimal Lagrangian surfaces in $mathbb{B}^4$ with Legendrian capillary boundary on $mathbb{S}^3$. On the one hand, we prove that any minimal Lagrangian surface in $mathbb{B}^4$ with Legendrian free boundary on $mathbb{S}^3$ must be an equatorial plane disk. One the other hand, we show that any annulus type minimal Lagrangian surface in $mathbb{B}^4$ with Legendrian capillary boundary on $mathbb{S}^3$ must be congruent to one of the Lagrangian catenoids. These results confirm the conjecture proposed by Li, Wang and Weng (Sci. China Math., 2020).
We consider surfaces with boundary satisfying a sixth order nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation corresponding to extremising the $L^2$-norm of the gradient of the mean curvature. We show that such surfaces with small $L^2$-norm of the second fundamental form and satisfying so-called `flat boundary conditions are necessarily planar.
We employ min-max techniques to show that the unit ball in $mathbb{R}^3$ contains embedded free boundary minimal surfaces with connected boundary and arbitrary genus.
In this paper we establish a connection between free boundary minimal surfaces in a ball in $mathbb{R}^3$ and free boundary cones arising in a one-phase problem. We prove that a doubly connected minimal surface with free boundary in a ball is a catenoid.
We prove a version of the strong half-space theorem between the classes of recurrent minimal surfaces and complete minimal surfaces with bounded curvature of $mathbb{R}^{3}_{raisepunct{.}}$ We also show that any minimal hypersurface immersed with bounded curvature in $Mtimes R_+$ equals some $Mtimes {s}$ provided $M$ is a complete, recurrent $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with $text{Ric}_M geq 0$ and whose sectional curvatures are bounded from above. For $H$-surfaces we prove that a stochastically complete surface $M$ can not be in the mean convex side of a $H$-surface $N$ embedded in $R^3$ with bounded curvature if $sup vert H_{_M}vert < H$, or ${rm dist}(M,N)=0$ when $sup vert H_{_M}vert = H$. Finally, a maximum principle at infinity is shown assuming $M$ has non-empty boundary.
We adapt the viscosity method introduced by Rivi`ere to the free boundary case. Namely, given a compact oriented surface $Sigma$, possibly with boundary, a closed ambient Riemannian manifold $(mathcal{M}^m,g)$ and a closed embedded submanifold $mathcal{N}^nsubsetmathcal{M}$, we study the asymptotic behavior of (almost) critical maps $Phi$ for the functional begin{align*} &E_sigma(Phi):=operatorname{area}(Phi)+sigmaoperatorname{length}(Phi|_{partialSigma})+sigma^4int_Sigma|{mathrm {I!I}}^Phi|^4,operatorname{vol}_Phi end{align*} on immersions $Phi:Sigmatomathcal{M}$ with the constraint $Phi(partialSigma)subseteqmathcal{N}$, as $sigmato 0$, assuming an upper bound for the area and a suitable entropy condition. As a consequence, given any collection $mathcal{F}$ of compact subsets of the space of smooth immersions $(Sigma,partialSigma)to(mathcal{M},mathcal{N})$, assuming $mathcal{F}$ to be stable under isotopies of this space we show that the min-max value begin{align*} &beta:=inf_{Ainmathcal{F}}max_{Phiin A}operatorname{area}(Phi) end{align*} is the sum of the areas of finitely many branched minimal immersions $Phi_{(i)}:Sigma_{(i)}tomathcal{M}$ with $partial_ uPhi_{(i)}perp Tmathcal{N}$ along $partialSigma_{(i)}$, whose (connected) domains $Sigma_{(i)}$ can be different from $Sigma$ but cannot have a more complicated topology. We adopt a point of view which exploits extensively the diffeomorphism invariance of $E_sigma$ and, along the way, we simplify several arguments from the original work. Some parts generalize to closed higher-dimensional domains, for which we get a rectifiable stationary varifold in the limit.