Compact anisotropic stable hypersurfaces with free boundary in convex solid cones

Abstract

We consider a convex solid cone $\mathcal{C}\subset {\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$ with vertex at the origin and boundary $\partial \mathcal{C}$ smooth away from $0$. Our main result shows that a compact two-sided hypersurface $\Sigma$ immersed in $\mathcal{C}$ with free boundary in $\partial \mathcal{C}\setminus \{0\}$ and minimizing, up to second order, an anisotropic area functional under a volume constraint is contained in a Wulff-shape.

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