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This survey describes a new existence result [21] for (disk-type) surfaces of prescribed constant mean curvature with free boundaries, and relates this result to some other well-known variational problems arising in differential geometry.
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Struwe, M. (1987). Free Boundary Problems for Surfaces of Constant Mean Curvature. In: Concus, P., Finn, R. (eds) Variational Methods for Free Surface Interfaces. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4656-5_6
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