Tangential limits of stable minimal capillary surfaces

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Main Authors: Eichmair, Michael, Koerber, Thomas
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Published: 2026
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author Eichmair, Michael
Koerber, Thomas
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Koerber, Thomas
contents We characterize all compact embedded stable minimal capillary surfaces with capillary angle close to either $0$ or $π$ that are supported on a complete embedded minimal surface with finite total curvature that is not an affine plane. Moreover, we characterize all compact embedded weakly stable minimal capillary surfaces with capillary angle close to either $0$ or $π$ that are supported on a closed surface whose mean curvature is positive and has no degenerate maxima. An important ingredient in our work are curvature estimates for sequences of weakly stable minimal capillary surfaces with capillary angles tending to $0$ or $π$ that enable us to analyze the tangential limits of such sequences at suitable scales.
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spellingShingle Tangential limits of stable minimal capillary surfaces
Eichmair, Michael
Koerber, Thomas
Differential Geometry
We characterize all compact embedded stable minimal capillary surfaces with capillary angle close to either $0$ or $π$ that are supported on a complete embedded minimal surface with finite total curvature that is not an affine plane. Moreover, we characterize all compact embedded weakly stable minimal capillary surfaces with capillary angle close to either $0$ or $π$ that are supported on a closed surface whose mean curvature is positive and has no degenerate maxima. An important ingredient in our work are curvature estimates for sequences of weakly stable minimal capillary surfaces with capillary angles tending to $0$ or $π$ that enable us to analyze the tangential limits of such sequences at suitable scales.
title Tangential limits of stable minimal capillary surfaces
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12277