Some remarks on singular capillary cones with free boundary

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Main Authors: Pacati, Alberto, Tortone, Giorgio, Velichkov, Bozhidar
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author Pacati, Alberto
Tortone, Giorgio
Velichkov, Bozhidar
author_facet Pacati, Alberto
Tortone, Giorgio
Velichkov, Bozhidar
contents We study minimizing singular cones with free boundary associated with the capillarity problem. Precisely, we provide a stability criterion $à$ la Jerison-Savin for capillary hypersurfaces and show that, in dimensions up to $4$, minimizing cones with non-sign-changing mean curvature are flat. We apply this criterion to minimizing capillary drops and, additionally, establish the instability of non-trivial axially symmetric cones in dimensions up to $6$. The main results are based on a Simons-type inequality for a class of convex, homogeneous, symmetric functions of the principal curvatures, combined with a boundary condition specific to the capillary setting.
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spellingShingle Some remarks on singular capillary cones with free boundary
Pacati, Alberto
Tortone, Giorgio
Velichkov, Bozhidar
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
We study minimizing singular cones with free boundary associated with the capillarity problem. Precisely, we provide a stability criterion $à$ la Jerison-Savin for capillary hypersurfaces and show that, in dimensions up to $4$, minimizing cones with non-sign-changing mean curvature are flat. We apply this criterion to minimizing capillary drops and, additionally, establish the instability of non-trivial axially symmetric cones in dimensions up to $6$. The main results are based on a Simons-type inequality for a class of convex, homogeneous, symmetric functions of the principal curvatures, combined with a boundary condition specific to the capillary setting.
title Some remarks on singular capillary cones with free boundary
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07697