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Esko Heinonen

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Non-parametric mean curvature flow with prescribed contact angle in Riemannian products

Assuming that there exists a translating soliton $u_\infty$ with speed $C$ in a domain $Ω$ and with prescribed contact angle on $\partialΩ$, we prove that a graphical solution to the mean curvature flow with the same prescribed contact angle converges to $u_\infty +Ct$ as $t\to\infty$. We also generalize the recent existence result of Gao, Ma, Wang and Weng to non-Euclidean settings under suitable bounds on convexity of $Ω$ and Ricci curvature in $Ω$.

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Translating solitons over Cartan-Hadamard manifolds

We prove existence results for entire graphical translators of the mean curvature flow (the so-called bowl solitons) on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. We show that the asymptotic behaviour of entire solitons depends heavily on the curvature of the manifold, and that there exist also bounded solutions if the curvature goes to minus infinity fast enough. Moreover, it is even possible to solve the asymptotic Dirichlet problem under certain conditions.

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Survey on the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation

We give a survey on the development of the study of the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. Part of this survey is based on the introductory part of the doctoral dissertation of the author. The paper is organised as follows. First we introduce Cartan-Hadamard manifolds and the concept of asymptotic Dirichlet problem, then discuss about the development of the results and describe the methods used in the proofs. In the end we mention some results about the nonsolvability of the asymptotic Dirichlet problem.

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Dirichlet problem for $f$-minimal graphs

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for $f$-minimal graphs in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds $M$. $f$-minimal hypersurfaces are natural generalizations of self-shrinkers which play a crucial role in the study of mean curvature flow. In the first part of this paper, we prove the existence of $f$-minimal graphs with prescribed boundary behavior on a bounded domain $Ω\subset M$ under suitable assumptions on $f$ and the boundary of $Ω$. In the second part, we consider the asymptotic Dirichlet problem. Provided that $f$ decays fast enough, we construct solutions to the problem. Our assumption on the decay of $f$ is linked with the sectional curvatures of $M$. In view of a result of Pigola, Rigoli and Setti, our results are almost sharp.

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Jenkins-Serrin graphs in $M\times\mathbb{R}$

The so called Jenkins-Serrin problem is a kind of Dirichlet problem for graphs with prescribed mean curvature that combines, at the same time, continuous boundary data with regions of the boundary where the boundary values explodes either to $+\infty$ or to $-\infty.$ We give a survey on the development of Jenkins-Serrin type problems over domains on Riemannian manifolds. The existence of this type of graphs imposes restrictions on the geometry of the boundary of these domains. We also improve some earlier results by proving Theorem 1.8, and prove the existence of translating Jenkins-Serrin graphs (Theorem 1.9).

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Asymptotic Dirichlet problems in warped products

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature $H$ in warped product manifolds $M\times_\varrho \mathbb{R}$. In the first part of the paper, we prove the existence of Killing graphs with prescribed boundary on geodesic balls under suitable assumptions on $H$ and the mean curvature of the Killing cylinders over geodesic spheres. In the process we obtain a uniform interior gradient estimate improving previous results by Dajczer and de Lira. In the second part we solve the asymptotic Dirichlet problem in a large class of manifolds whose sectional curvatures are allowed to go to $0$ or to $-\infty$ provided that $H$satisfies certain bounds with respect to the sectional curvatures of $M$ and the norm of the Killing vector field. Finally we obtain non-existence results if the prescribed mean curvature function $H$ grows too fast.

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Existence and non-existence of minimal graphic and $p$-harmonic functions

We prove that every entire solution of the minimal graph equation that is bounded from below and has at most linear growth must be constant on a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ with only one end if $M$ has asymptotically non-negative sectional curvature. On the other hand, we prove the existence of bounded non-constant minimal graphic and $p$-harmonic functions on rotationally symmetric Cartan-Hadamard manifolds under optimal assumptions on the sectional curvatures.

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Solvability of minimal graph equation under pointwise pinching condition for sectional curvatures

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal graph equation on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold $M$ whose radial sectional curvatures outside a compact set satisfy an upper bound $$K(P)\le - \frac{ϕ(ϕ-1)}{r(x)^2}$$ and a pointwise pinching condition $$|K(P)|\le C_K|K(P')|$$ for some constants $ϕ>1$ and $C_K\ge 1$, where $P$ and $P'$ are any 2-dimensional subspaces of $T_xM$ containing the (radial) vector $\nabla r(x)$ and $r(x)=d(o,x)$ is the distance to a fixed point $o\in M$. We solve the asymptotic Dirichlet problem with any continuous boundary data for dimensions $n>4/ϕ+1$.

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Asymptotic Dirichlet problem for $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions on manifolds with pinched curvature

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic functions on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold whose radial sectional curvatures outside a compact set satisfy an upper bound $$ K(P)\le - \frac{1+\varepsilon}{r(x)^2 \log r(x)} $$ and a pointwise pinching condition $$ |K(P)|\le C_K |K(P')| $$ for some constants $\varepsilon>0$ and $C_K\ge 1$, where $P$ and $P'$ are any 2-dimensional subspaces of $T_xM$ containing the (radial) vector $\nabla r(x)$ and $r(x)=d(o,x)$ is the distance to a fixed point $o\in M$. We solve the asymptotic Dirichlet problem with any continuous boundary data $f\in C(\partial_{\infty} M)$. The results apply also to the Laplacian and $p$-Laplacian, $1<p<\infty,$ as special cases.

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