Uniqueness conjecture for power capillary Gauss curvature solitons

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Let Cθ\mathcal{C}_{\theta} be the spherical cap, let α>1n+2\alpha>\frac{1}{n+2} and let θ(0,π)\theta\in(0,\pi). Suppose that hh is a positive, strictly convex function on Cθ\mathcal{C}_{\theta}, with 2h\nabla^2h its covariant Hessian and σ\sigma the standard metric. Power capillary soliton uniqueness conjecture. If

{hdetα(2h+hσ)= in Cθ,μh=cotθh on Cθ,\left\{ \begin{array}{llll} h\det^\alpha(\nabla^2 h+h\sigma)=\ell & \text{ in } \mathcal{C}_\theta,\\ \nabla_\mu h=\cot\theta\,h & \text{ on } \partial\mathcal{C}_\theta, \end{array} \right.

then h=h=\ell. The source says that classification of the corresponding capillary solitons remains open and presents this boundary-value formulation as an equivalent conjecture; it is intended to characterize the unit spherical cap after normalizing the Lagrange multiplier to 11.

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Xinqun Mei, Guofang Wang and Liangjun Weng, “The capillary Gauss curvature flow”, arXiv:2506.09840 (2025).

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