Stability of Convex Disks

Abstract

We prove that topological disks with positive curvature and strictly convex boundary of large length are close to round spherical caps of constant boundary curvature in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. This proves stability for a theorem of F. Hang and X. Wang, and can be viewed as an affirmative answer to a convex stability version of the Min-Oo Conjecture in dimension two. As an intermediate step, we obtain a compactness result for a Liouville-type PDE problem.