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The isometric immersion of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds or surfaces with negative Gauss curvature into the three-dimensional Euclidean space is studied in this paper. The global weak solutions to the Gauss-Codazzi equations with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Wentao Cao , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang

A fundamental problem in differential geometry is to characterize intrinsic metrics on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold ${\mathcal M}^2$ which can be realized as isometric immersions into $\R^3$. This problem can be formulated as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Gui-Qiang Chen , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

Let $M$ be an open Riemann surface and $n\ge 3$ be an integer. In this paper we establish some generic properties (in Baire category sense) in the space of all conformal minimal immersions $M\to\mathbb{R}^n$ endowed with the compact-open…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Antonio Alarcon , Francisco J. Lopez

This paper is devoted to investigating the isometric immersion problem of Riemannian manifolds in a high codimension. It has recently been demonstrated that any short immersion from an $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Zhiwen Zhao

We study isometric immersions $f: M^n \rightarrow \mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ into hyperbolic space of dimension $n+1$ of a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$ on which a compact connected group of intrinsic isometries acts with principal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Felippe Guimarães , Fernando Manfio , Carlos E. Olmos

Let U be a real form of a complex semisimple Lie group, and tau, sigma, a pair of commuting involutions on U. This data corresponds to a reflective submanifold of a symmetric space, U/K. We define an associated integrable system, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-06 David Brander

This note pertains to isometric embeddings endowed with certain geometric properties. We study two embedding problems for a Riemannian manifold $M$ which is diffeomorphic to $\RR^n$ and admits a Bieberbach group $\Gamma$ acting by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Dmitri Burago , Hongda Qiu

We consider the following generalisation of a well-known problem in Riemannian geometry: When is a smooth real-valued function s on a given compact n-dimensional manifold M (with or without boundary) the scalar curvature of some smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Nardmann

This work has two main purposes. The first aim is to study isotropic Riemannian maps as a generalization of isotropic immersions. For this purpose, the concept of isotropic Riemannian map is presented, an example is given and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Gözde Özkan Tükel , Bayram Şahin , Tunahan Turhan

In this paper we prove that every Riemannian metric on a locally conformally flat manifold with umbilic boundary can be conformally deformed to a scalar flat metric having constant mean curvature. This result can be seen as a generalization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

A smooth map between smooth manifolds is called a special generic map if it has only definite fold points as its singularities. In this paper, we give conditions for a special generic map into the 3-dimensional Euclidean space to be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Masayuki Nishioka

It is a classical problem in algebraic geometry to characterize the algebraic subvariety by using the Gauss map. In this note, we try to develop the analogue theory in CR geometry. In particular, under some assumptions, we show that a CR…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Wanke Yin , Yuan Yuan , Yuan Zhang

We introduce a family of variational functionals for spinor fields on a compact Riemann surface $M$ that can be used to find close-to-conformal immersions of $M$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$ in a prescribed regular homotopy class. Numerical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Albert Chern , Felix Knöppel , Franz Pedit , Ulrich Pinkall , Peter Schröder

Given an $m$-dimensional closed connected Riemannian manifold $M$ smoothly isometrically immersed in an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $N$, we estimate the diameter of $M$ in terms of its mean curvature field integral under some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Jia-Yong Wu , Yu Zheng

We construct continuous families of pairwise isospectral metrics on various Riemannian manifolds (e.g., Lie groups, projective spaces and products of these with tori) which arise as quotients of other manifolds. This is done by developing a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Alexander Engel

Manifold learning has been proven to be an effective method for capturing the implicitly intrinsic structure of non-Euclidean data, in which one of the primary challenges is how to maintain the distortion-free (isometry) of the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zihao Chen , Wenyong Wang , Yu Xiang

We study metrics on shape space of immersions that have a particularly simple horizontal bundle. More specifically, we consider reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics $G$ on the space $\operatorname{Imm}(M,N)$ of immersions of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Martin Bauer , Philipp Harms

We consider two Riemannian geometries for the manifold $\mathcal{M}(p,m\times n)$ of all $m\times n$ matrices of rank $p$. The geometries are induced on $\mathcal{M}(p,m\times n)$ by viewing it as the base manifold of the submersion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-04 P. -A. Absil , Luca Amodei , Gilles Meyer

It is known that any periodic map of order $n$ on a closed oriented surface of genus $g$ can be equivariantly embedded into $S^m$ for some $m$. In the orientable and smooth category, we determine the smallest possible $m$ when $n\geq 3g$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Chao Wang , Shicheng Wang , Zhongzi Wang

We establish mean curvature estimate for immersed hypersurface with nonnegative extrinsic scalar curvature in Riemannian manifold $(N^{n+1}, \bar g)$ through regularity study of a degenerate fully nonlinear curvature equation in general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Pengfei Guan , Siyuan Lu