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In this article we study surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3(1) \times \mathbb{R}$ for which the $\mathbb{R}$-direction makes a constant angle with the normal plane. We give a complete classification for such surfaces with parallel mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-04 Daguang Chen , Gangyi Chen , Hang Chen , Franki Dillen

We prove that singular minimal surfaces with constant Gauss curvature are planes, spheres and cylindrical surfaces. We also classify all singular minimal surfaces with a constant principal curvature and singular minimal surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Rafael López

We prove the existence of minimal surfaces in a bounded convex subset of $\mathbb R^3$, $\mathcal M$, intersecting the boundary of $\mathcal M$ with a fixed contact angle. The proof is based on a min-max construction in the spirit of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Luigi De Masi , Guido De Philippis

The Willmore Problem seeks closed surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3\subset\mathbb{R}^4$ of a given topological type minimizing the squared-mean-curvature energy $W = \int |H_{\mathbb{R}^4}|^2 = area + \int |H_{\mathbb{S}^3}|^2$. The longstanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Rob Kusner , Ying Lü , Peng Wang

We deal with minimal surfaces in the unit sphere $S^3$, which are one-parameter families of circles. Minimal surfaces in $\R^3$ foliated by circles were first investigated by Riemann, and a hundred years later Lawson constructed examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-01 N. Kutev , V. Milousheva

In this paper, we study trigonal minimal surfaces in flat tori. First, we show a topological obstruction similar to that of hyperelliptic minimal surfaces. Actually, the genus of trigonal minimal surface in 3-dimensional flat torus must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Toshihiro Shoda

In this paper, we explore minimal contact triangulations on contact 3-manifolds. We give many explicit examples of contact triangulations that are close to minimal ones. The main results of this article say that on any closed oriented…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Basudeb Datta , Dheeraj Kulkarni

In this paper we study constant angle surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. Even that the result is a consequence of some classical results involving the Gauss map (of the surface), we give another approach to classify all surfaces for which the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-01 Marian Ioan Munteanu , Ana Irina Nistor

We classify complete orientable hypersurfaces of constant isotropic curvature in space forms. We show that such a hypersurface has constant mean curvature only if it is an isoparametric hypersurface, and that it is minimal if and only if it…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 H. A. Gururaja , Niteesh Kumar

The Willmore Problem seeks the surface in $\mathbb S^3\subset\mathbb R^4$ of a given topological type minimizing the squared-mean-curvature energy $W = \int |\mathbf{H}_{\mathbb{R}^4}|^2 = \operatorname{area} + \int H_{\mathbb{S}^3}^2$. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Rob Kusner , Peng Wang

We study conformally flat hypersurfaces $f\colon M^{3} \to \Q^{4}(c)$ with three distinct principal curvatures and constant mean curvature $H$ in a space form with constant sectional curvature $c$. First we extend a theorem due to Defever…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Carlos do Rei Filho , Ruy Tojeiro

We show that any embedded minimal torus in S^3 is congruent to the Clifford torus. This answers a question posed by H.B. Lawson, Jr., in 1970.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 S. Brendle

It is a well known phenomenon that many classical minimal surfaces in Euclidean space also exist with higher dihedral symmetry. More precisely, these surfaces are solutions to free boundary problems in a wedge bounded by two vertical planes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Ramazan Yol

The Clifford tori in the 3-sphere are a one-parameter family of flat, two-dimensional, constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces. This paper demonstrates that new, topologically non-trivial CMC surfaces resembling a pair of neighbouring…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher , Frank Pacard

The minimal surface equation $Q$ in the second order contact bundle of $R^3$, modulo translations, is provided with a complex structure and a canonical vector-valued holomorphic differential form $Omega$ on $Q\0$. The minimal surfaces $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. J. Duistermaat

In this paper, we prove that a closed minimally immersed hypersurface $M^4\subset\mathbb S^5$ with constant $S:=\sum\limits_{i=1}^4\lambda_i^2$ and $A_3:=\sum\limits_{i=1}^4\lambda_i^3$ whose scalar curvature $R_M$ is nonnegative must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Joel Spruck , Ling Xiao

In this paper we classify certain special ruled surfaces in $\R^3$ under the general theorem of characterization of constant angle surfaces. We study the tangent developable and conical surfaces from the point of view the constant angle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-10 Ana-Irina Nistor

We develop a min-max theory for the construction of capillary surfaces in 3-manifolds with smooth boundary. In particular, for a generic set of ambient metrics, we prove the existence of nontrivial, smooth, almost properly embedded surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chao Li , Xin Zhou , Jonathan J. Zhu

We consider the sub-Riemannian metric $g_{h}$ on $\mathbb{S}^3$ provided by the restriction of the Riemannian metric of curvature 1 to the plane distribution orthogonal to the Hopf vector field. We compute the geodesics associated to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ana Hurtado , César Rosales

In the 1-parameter family of Berger spheres S^3(a), a > 0 (S^3(1) is the round 3-sphere of radius 1) we classify the stable constant mean curvature spheres, showing that in some Berger spheres (a close to 0) there are unstable constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Francisco Torralbo , Francisco Urbano