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Harnack’s inequalities for solutions to the mean curvature equation and to the capillarity problem. (English) Zbl 1121.35056

The author derives Harnack-type estimates for solutions to the capillarity problems in terms of the prescribed boundary contact angle, the prescribed mean curvature and the space dimension.

MSC:

35J60 Nonlinear elliptic equations
35B45 A priori estimates in context of PDEs
35B65 Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs
58E12 Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables)
76B45 Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids
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