Related papers: Lower bounds for index of Wente tori

We find various lower and upper bounds for the index of Wente tori that contain a continuous family of planar principal curves. We then prove a result that gives an algorithm for computing the index sharply.

We compute lower bounds for the Morse index and nullity of constant mean curvature tori of revolution in the three-dimensional unit sphere. In particular, all such tori have index at least five, with index growing at least linearly with…

We give three lower bounds for the Morse index of a constant mean curvature torus in Euclidean 3-space in terms of its spectral genus g. The first two lower bounds grow linearly in g and are stronger for smaller values of g, while the third…

In this work we give a new lower bound on the Morse index for constant mean curvature tori of revolution immersed in the three-sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$, by computing some explicit negative eigenvalues for the corresponding Jacobi operator.

We introduce a notion of index for shrinkers of the mean curvature flow. We then prove a gap theorem for the index of rotationally symmetric immersed shrinkers in R^3, namely, that such shrinkers have index at least 3, unless they are one…

We prove that any finite $\delta$-index hypersurface $M$ in ${\mathbb R}^{n+1}$ with constant mean curvature must be minimal, provided either of the following conditions holds: - the volume growth of $M$ is sub-exponential; - the Ricci…

In 1989, B. White conjectured that every Riemannian 3-sphere has at least 5 embedded minimal tori. We confirm this conjecture for 3-spheres of positive Ricci curvature. While our proof uses min-max theory, the underlying heuristics are…

We establish a curvature estimate for classical minimal surfaces with total boundary curvature less than 4\pi. The main application is a bound on the genus of these surfaces depending solely on the geometry of the boundary curve. We also…

We explicitly determine tori that have a parallel mean curvature vector, both in the complex projective plane and the complex hyperbolic plane

A closed surface evolving under mean curvature flow becomes singular in finite time. Near the singularity, the surface resembles a self-shrinker, a surface that shrinks by dilations under mean curvature flow. If the singularity is modeled…

An old theorem, due to Graustein, asserts that the average curvature of a plane oval is attained at least at four points. We present a proof by way of wave propagation and extend this result to the spherical and hyperbolic geometries - in…

A special formula for the total mean curvature of an ovaloid is derived. This formula allows us to extend the notion of the mean curvature to the class of boundaries of strictly convex sets. Moreover, some integral formula for ovaloids is…

We study the multiplicity of the singularity of mean curvature flow with bounded mean curvature and Morse index. For $3\leq n\leq 6$, we show that either the mean curvature or the Morse index blows up at the first singular time for a closed…

We study the Morse index of self-shrinkers for the mean curvature flow and, more generally, of $f$-minimal hypersurfaces in a weighted Euclidean space endowed with a convex weight. When the hypersurface is compact, we show that the index is…

In this paper, we consider compact free boundary constant mean curvature surfaces immersed in a mean convex body of the Euclidean space or in the unit sphere. We prove that the Morse index is bounded from below by a linear function of the…

We introduce an upper bound of the Betti numbers of a compact Riemannian manifold given integral bounds on the average of the lowest eigenvalues of the curvature operator. We then establish a new curvature condition for the Betti numbers to…

We prove explicit bounds on the number of lattice points on or near a convex curve in terms of geometric invariants such as length, curvature, and affine arclength. In several of our results we obtain the best possible constants. Our…

We show that for a complete Ricci shrinker there exists a sequence of points tending to infinity whose norms of the Ricci tensor grow at most linearly.

Let $\gamma$ be a Riemannian metric on $\Sigma = S^1 \times T^{n-2}$, where $3 \leq n \leq 7$. Consider $\Omega = B^2 \times T^{n-2}$ with boundary $\partial \Omega = \Sigma$, and let $g$ be a Riemannian metric on $\Omega$ such that the…

In this very short note we prove a lower bound for the scalar curvature of certain steady gradient Ricci solitons.