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Kirk Lancaster

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Radial Limits of Nonparametric PMC Surfaces with Intermediate Boundary Curvature

We investigate the boundary behavior of the variational solution $f$ of a Dirichlet problem for a prescribed mean curvature equation in a domain $Ω\subset{\bf R}^{2}$ near a point $\mathcal{O}\in\partialΩ$ under different assumptions about the curvature of $\partialΩ$ on each side of $\mathcal{O}.$ We prove that the radial limits at $\mathcal{O}$ of $f$ exist under different assumptions about the Dirichlet boundary data $ϕ,$ depending on the curvature properties of $\partialΩ$ near $\mathcal{O}.$

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Radial Limits of Capillary Surfaces at Corners

Consider a solution $f\in C^{2}(Ω)$ of a prescribed mean curvature equation \[ {\rm div}\left(\frac{\nabla f}{\sqrt{1+|\nabla f|^{2}}}\right)=2H(x,f) \ \ \ \ {\rm in} \ \ Ω\subset R^{2}, \] where $Ω$ is a domain whose boundary has a corner at ${\cal O}=(0,0)\in\partialΩ$ and the angular measure of this corner is $2α,$ for some $α\in (0,π).$ Suppose $\sup_{x\inΩ} |f(x)|$ and $\sup_{x\inΩ} |H(x,f(x))|$ are both finite. If $α>\fracπ{2},$ then the (nontangential) radial limits of $f$ at ${\cal O},$ \[ Rf(θ) = \lim_{r\downarrow 0} f(r\cos(θ),r\sin(θ)), \] were recently proven by the authors to exist, independent of the boundary behavior of $f$ on $\partialΩ,$ and to have a specific type of behavior. Suppose $α\in \left(\fracπ{4},\fracπ{2}\right],$ the contact angle $γ(\cdot)$ that the graph of $f$ makes with one side of $\partialΩ$ has a limit (denoted $γ_{2}$) at ${\cal O}$ and \[ π-2α< γ_{2} <2α. \] We prove that the (nontangential) radial limits of $f$ at ${\cal O}$ exist and the radial limits have a specific type of behavior, independent of the boundary behavior of $f$ on the other side of $\partialΩ.$ We also discuss the case $α\in \left(0,\fracπ{2}\right].$

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On the relationship of continuity and boundary regularity in PMC Dirichlet problems

In 1976, Leon Simon showed that if a compact subset of the boundary of a domain is smooth and has negative mean curvature, then the non-parametric least area problem with Lipschitz continuous Dirichlet boundary data has a generalized solution which is continuous on the union of the domain and this compact subset of the boundary, even if the generalized solution does not take on the prescribed boundary data. Simon's result has been extended to boundary value problems for prescribed mean curvature equations by other authors. In this note, we construct Dirichlet problems in domains with corners and demonstrate that the variational solutions of these Dirichlet problems are discontinuous at the corner, showing that Simon's assumption of regularity of the boundary of the domain is essential.

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