A Generalization of "Existence and Behavior of the Radial Limits of a Bounded Capillary Surface at a Corner"

Abstract

The principle existence theorem (i.e. Theorem 1) of "Existence and Behavior of the Radial Limits of a Bounded Capillary Surface at a Corner" (Pacific J. Math. Vol. 176, No. 1 (1996), 165-194) is extended to the case of a contact angle $\gamma$ which is not bounded away from $0$ and $\pi$ (and depends on position in a bounded domain $\Omega \in {\mathbf{R}}^2$ with a convex corner at $\mathcal{O}=(0,0)$). The lower bound on the size of "side fans" (i.e. Theorem 2 in the above paper) is extended to case of such contact angles for convex and nonconvex corners.

20 pages, 3 figures, removed Example 3, added more details in the proofs, slight modifications, submitted to the Pacific Journal of Mathematics