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We prove that every closed, smooth $n$-manifold $X$ admits a Riemannian metric together with a smooth, transversely oriented CMC foliation if and only if its Euler characteristic is zero, where by CMC foliation we mean a codimension-one,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-10 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez

We consider complete spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the open region of de Sitter space known as the steady state space. We prove that if the hypersurface is bounded away from the infinity of the ambient space, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

Let $M^{n+1}$ be a closed manifold of dimension $3\le n+1\le 7$ equipped with a generic Riemannian metric $g$. Let $c$ be a positive number. We show that, either there exist infinitely many distinct closed hypersurfaces with constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Liam Mazurowski , Xin Zhou

We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Adrian Butscher , Rafe Mazzeo

This paper investigates conformal deformations of the scalar curvature and mean curvature on complete Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of conformal deformations to complete metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos

We establish the existence of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and a prescribed boundary in Euclidean space, represented as radial graphs over domains of the unit sphere. Under the assumptions that the mean curvature of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Flávio Cruz , José T. Cruz , Jocel Oliveira

In this paper we prove that stable, compact without boundary, oriented, nonzero constant mean curvature surfaces in the de Sitter-Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom manifolds are the slices, provided its mean curvature satisfies some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Gregório Silva Neto

We study the volume preserving mean curvature flow of a surface immersed in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold modeling an isolated gravitating system in General Relativity. We show that, if the ambient manifold has positive ADM mass and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Carlo Sinestrari , Jacopo Tenan

We construct infinitely many distinct hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature (PMC) for a large class of prescribing functions when $(M^{n+1}, g)$ is a closed smooth manifold containing a minimal surface that is strictly stable (or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Pedro Gaspar , Jared Marx-Kuo

In this paper, we prove uniform curvature estimates for immersed stable free boundary minimal hypersurfaces which satisfy a uniform area bound. Our result is a natural generalization of the celebrated Schoen-Simon-Yau interior curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Qiang Guang , Martin Li , Xin Zhou

We present a general construction of embedded minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^n$ and one-phase free boundaries joined by a smooth interpolation by capillary hypersurfaces. This framework recovers all known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis

In this paper, we establish the existence of prescribed mean curvature (PMC) hypersurfaces in conformal product manifolds with (possibly empty) $C^{1,\alpha}$ fixed graphical boundaries under a barrier condition. This result generalizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Qiang Gao , Hengyu Zhou

In this paper, we first study isometric immersions $f: M^n\rightarrow M^{n+k}(c), n\geq 3,$ into space forms with flat normal bundle and constant scalar curvature $R.$ Under a suitable multiplicity condition on the second fundamental form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 H. A. Gururaja

For three dimensional complete Riemannian manifolds with scalar curvature no less than one, we obtain the sharp upper bound of complete stable minimal surfaces' diameter.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Qixuan Hu , Guoyi Xu , Shuai Zhang

In this paper I study the constant mean curvature surface in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds with general asymptotics. Under some weak condition, I prove that outside some compact set in the asymptotically flat 3-manifold with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-21 Shiguang Ma

We consider surfaces with constant mean curvature in certain warped product manifolds. We show that any such surface is umbilic, provided that the warping factor satisfies certain structure conditions. This theorem can be viewed as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-23 S. Brendle

We prove the existence of nontrivial closed surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature with respect to elliptic integrands in closed smooth $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. The constructed min-max surfaces are smooth with at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Guido De Philippis , Antonio De Rosa

We study the global behavior of (weakly) stable constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in general Riemannian manifolds. By using harmonic function theory, we prove some one-end theorems which are new even for constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xu Cheng , Leung-fu Cheung , Detang Zhou

We review recent work on the local geometry and optimal regularity of Lorentzian manifolds with bounded curvature. Our main results provide an estimate of the injectivity radius of an observer, and a local canonical foliations by CMC…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-20 Philippe G. LeFloch

We develop a min-max theory for hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in noncompact manifolds, applicable to prescription functions that do not change sign outside a compact set. We use this theory to prove new existence results for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Douglas Stryker