Spherical cap conjecture for compact CMC surfaces bounded by a circle
Spherical cap conjecture for compact CMC surfaces bounded by a circle
Let be a compact surface in with non-empty circular boundary and nonzero constant mean curvature. Spherical cap conjecture. If either (i) has genus zero and is immersed, or (ii) is embedded, then is a spherical cap. The genus-zero immersed case and the embedded case extend classical uniqueness results for closed constant-mean-curvature surfaces; the claim remains open for compact surfaces with boundary, although immersed examples of nonzero genus are known.
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Flávio França Cruz and Barbara Nelli, “An extension of Liebmann's Theorem to hypersurfaces with boundary”, arXiv:2412.03368 (2025).
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