Gap results and existence of CMC free boundary hypersurfaces in rotational domains

TL;DR

This paper investigates the existence, uniqueness, and classification of free boundary constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in rotational domains, providing new results on their topology and constructing specific examples in rotational ellipsoids.

Contribution

It introduces a classification of CMC free boundary hypersurfaces in rotational domains under certain conditions and constructs explicit examples satisfying a gap condition.

Findings

Classified free boundary CMC hypersurfaces as disks or annuli

Established conditions for existence and uniqueness

Constructed examples in rotational ellipsoids

Abstract

In this paper, we work with the existence and uniqueness of free boundary constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in rotational domains. These are domains whose boundary is generated by a rotation of a graph. Under some conditions on the function that generates the graph and a gap condition on the umbilicity tensor, we classify the CMC free boundary hypersurfaces as topological disks or annulus. Also, we construct some examples of free boundary minimal surfaces in the rotational ellipsoid that, in particular, satisfy our gap condition.