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A GAP RESULT OF SIMONS' TYPE FOR FREE BOUNDARY CMC-H SURFACES

  • Min, Sung-Hong (Department of Mathematics Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2021.08.06
  • Accepted : 2021.08.10
  • Published : 2021.08.15
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Abstract

We provide a gap theorem of Simons' type for free boundary minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in the unit ball in 3-dimensional Euclidean space.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant Number: 2017R1D1A1B03036369).

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