Minimum principles and a priori estimates for some translating soliton type problems

TL;DR

This paper investigates generalized mean curvature problems related to translating solitons, establishing uniqueness of interior critical points and deriving key a priori estimates using minimum principles for P-functions.

Contribution

It introduces new classes of mean curvature problems extending translating solitons and proves uniqueness and a priori estimates for their solutions.

Findings

Solutions have unique interior critical points

Established $C^0$ and $C^1$ estimates for solutions

Applied minimum principles for P-functions

Abstract

In this paper we are dealing with two classes of mean curvature type problems that generalize the translating soliton problem. A first result proves that the solutions to these problems have unique interior critical points. Using this uniqueness result, we next derive a priori $C^0$ and $C^1$ estimates for the solutions to these problems, by means of some minimum principles for appropriate $P$-functions, in the sense of L.E. Payne.