Wulff inequality for minimal submanifolds

Let W\mathcal{W} be the Wulff shape associated with a positive anisotropic function Φ\Phi, and let Σ\Sigma be an nn-dimensional minimal submanifold in Rn+m\mathbb{R}^{n+m}. For each nn-dimensional affine subspace PP, let projPW\operatorname{proj}_P\mathcal{W} denote the projection of W\mathcal{W} to PP. Choose an nn-dimensional affine subspace P\overline{P} minimizing the projected volume, and set

W=projPW,W=min{projPW:PGrn(Rn+m)}.W^*=\operatorname{proj}_{\overline{P}}\mathcal{W},\qquad |W^*|=\min\{ |\operatorname{proj}_P\mathcal{W}|:P\in Gr_n(\mathbb{R}^{n+m})\}.

Wulff inequality for minimal submanifolds. The inequality

PΦ(Σ)Σn1nPΦ(W)Wn1n\frac{P_{\Phi}(\Sigma)}{|\Sigma|^{\frac{n-1}{n}}}\geq\frac{P_{\Phi}(W^*)}{|W^*|^{\frac{n-1}{n}}}

holds, with equality if and only if Σ\Sigma is homothetic to some WW^*. This is the proposed nonzero-codimension extension of the classical Wulff inequality. The supplied text presents it as a natural question and gives no resolution, while noting that related anisotropic minimal-submanifold inequalities have been studied.

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Wenkui Du, Yuchao Yi and Ziyi Zhao, “Wulff inequality for minimal submanifolds in Euclidean space”, arXiv:2412.19063 (2024).

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