Stable closed equilibria for anisotropic surface energies: Surfaces with edges

Bennett Palmer

doi:10.3934/jgm.2012.4.89

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Stable closed equilibria for anisotropic surface energies: Surfaces with edges

Bennett Palmer^1,

1.
Department of Mathematics, Idaho State University, Pocatello , Idaho, 83209

Received: November 2011

Revised: April 2012

Published: March 2012

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We study the stability of closed, not necessarily smooth, equilibrium surfaces of an anisotropic surface energy for which the Wulff shape is not necessarily smooth. We show that if the Cahn-Hoffman field can be extended continuously to the whole surface and if the surface is stable, then the surface is, up to rescaling, the Wulff shape.

Keywords:

Anisotropic mean curvature,
second variation.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 49Q10; Secondary: 53A015.

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