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A half-space Bernstein theorem for anisotropic minimal graphs

  • Wenkui Du

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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  • Connor Mooney

    University of California, Irvine, USA
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  • Yang Yang

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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  • Jingze Zhu

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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Abstract

We prove that an anisotropic minimal graph over a half-space with flat boundary must itself be flat. This generalizes a result of Edelen–Wang to the anisotropic case. The proof uses only the maximum principle and ideas from fully nonlinear PDE theory in lieu of a monotonicity formula.

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Wenkui Du, Connor Mooney, Yang Yang, Jingze Zhu, A half-space Bernstein theorem for anisotropic minimal graphs. J. Eur. Math. Soc. (2025), published online first

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1695