We assign a measure to an upper semicontinuous function which is subharmonic with respect to the mean curvature operator, so that it agrees with the mean curvature of its graph when the function is smooth. We prove that the measure is weakly continuous with respect to almost everywhere convergence. We also establish a sharp Harnack inequality for the minimal surface equation, which is crucial for our proof of the weak continuity. As an application we prove the existence of weak solutions to the...
The paper is devoted to the description of some connections between the mean curvature in a distributional sense and the mean curvature in a variational sense for several classes of non-smooth sets. We prove the existence of the mean curvature measure of by using a technique introduced in [4] and based on the concept of variational mean curvature. More precisely we prove that, under suitable assumptions, the mean curvature measure of is the weak limit (in the sense of distributions) of the mean...