Asymptotic analysis for surfaces with large constant mean curvature and free boundaries

Laurain, Paul

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 29 (2012) no. 1, pp. 109-129

We prove that simply connected H-surfaces with bounded area and free boundary in a domain necessarily concentrate at a critical point of the mean curvature of the boundary of this domain.

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