Hypersurfaces with free boundary and large constant mean curvature: concentration along submanifolds

Fall, Mouhamed Moustapha; Mahmoudi, Fethi

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 7 (2008) no. 3, pp. 407-446.

Given a domain $\Omega$ of ${ℝ}^{m+1}$ and a $k$-dimensional non-degenerate minimal submanifold $K$ of $\partial \Omega$ with $1\le k\le m-1$, we prove the existence of a family of embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in $\Omega$ which as their mean curvature tends to infinity concentrate along $K$ and intersecting $\partial \Omega$ perpendicularly along their boundaries.

Classification : 53A10, 53C21, 35R35

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