Paper · Apr 17, 2026

Capillary quermassintegral inequalities in the unit ball

Shujing Pan, Julian Scheuer

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2604.15993
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This paper is about hypersurfaces with boundary lying in the Euclidean unit ball, which meet the unit sphere at a fixed angle . Such hypersurfaces are called -capillary hypersurfaces and for those we introduce a new notion of convexity, which we call -horocap-convexity. For such hypersurfaces, we prove the convergence of a curvature flow of Guan/Li type with capillary boundary. Remarkably, we prove this result for a class of curvature functions which include all quotients of symmetric polynomials and, as a consequence, we obtain the full set of quermassintegral inequalities in the -horocap-convex case. In the strictly horocap-convex setting, we employ the flow to prove the geometric inequalities, while for the horocap-convex case and the characterization of the equality case, we develop new arguments which are interesting in their own right.

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