Special Session 1: Analysis of PDEs and Free Boundary Problems

Gauge balls and Heisenberg groups: rigidity via horizontal curvature

Giulio Tralli
University of Padova
Italy
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Abstract:
In this talk we consider the problem of characterizing gauge balls in the Heisenberg group by prescribing their (non-constant) horizontal mean curvature. We discuss two uniqueness results: in the lowest dimensional case under an assumption on the location of the singular set, and in higher dimensions in the proper class of horizontally umbilical hypersurfaces. This is a joint work with C. Guidi and V. Martino.