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In this paper we prove that, given an open Riemann surface $M$ and an integer $n\ge 3$, the set of complete conformal minimal immersions $M\to\mathbb{R}^n$ with $\overline{X(M)}=\mathbb{R}^n$ forms a dense subset in the space of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Antonio Alarcon , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes

For compact Riemannian manifolds with convex boundary, B.White proved the following alternative: Either there is an isoperimetric inequality for minimal hypersurfaces or there exists a closed minimal hypersurface, possibly with a small…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Victor Bangert , Nena Roettgen

We prove that the boundary of the trapped region in an asymptotically Euclidean Riemannian manifold of dimension at least 3 is a stable smooth minimal hypersurface except for a singular set of codimension at least 8.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Eric Larsson

This paper develops a technique for applying one-parameter prescribed mean curvature min-max theory in certain non-compact manifolds. We give two main applications. First, fix a dimension $3\le n+1 \le 7$ and consider a smooth function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Liam Mazurowski

We study translation minimal hypersurfaces and separable minimal hypersurfaces in the ($n+1$)-space with $2m$-norm.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Makoto Sakaki , Ryota Tanaka

This paper introduces the notion of $k$-isoparametric hypersurface in an $(n+1)$-dimensional Riemannian manifold for $k=0,1,...,n$. Many fundamental and interesting results (towards the classification of homogeneous hypersurfaces among…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Jianquan Ge , Zizhou Tang , Wenjiao Yan

We provide uniqueness results for compact minimal submanifolds in a large class of Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary dimension. In the case compact and Cartan-Hadamard manifolds we obtain general results for these submanifolds. Several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-23 R. M. Rubio , J. J. Salamanca

We present a general existence proof for a wide class of non-linear elliptic equations which can be applied to problems with barrier conditions without specifying any assumptions guaranteeing the uniqueness or local uniqueness of particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-06 Claus Gerhardt

We prove a version of the strong half-space theorem between the classes of recurrent minimal surfaces and complete minimal surfaces with bounded curvature of $\mathbb{R}^{3}_{\raisepunct{.}}$ We also show that any minimal hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-06 G. Pacelli Bessa , Luquesio P. Jorge , Leandro Pessoa

In this paper we use min-max theory to study the existence free boundary minimal hypersurfaces (FBMHs) in compact manifolds with boundary $(M^{n+1}, \partial M, g)$, where $2\leq n\leq 6$. Under the assumption that $g$ is a local maximizer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Yucheng Tu

We study some sub-Riemannian objects (such as horizontal connectivity, horizontal connection, horizontal tangent plane, horizontal mean curvature) in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a connected hypersurface in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kang-Hai Tan , Xiao-Ping Yang

It is well known that isoperimetric regions in a smooth compact $(n+1)$-manifold are smooth, up to a closed set of codimension at most $6$. In this note, we first construct an $8$-dimensional compact smooth manifold whose unique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Gongping Niu

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

We prove that every complete non-compact manifold of finite volume contains a (possibly non-compact) minimal hypersurface of finite volume. The main tool is the following result of independent interest: if a region $U$ can be swept out by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Gregory R. Chambers , Yevgeny Liokumovich

We define combinatorial analogues of stable and unstable minimal surfaces in the setting of weighted pseudomanifolds. We prove that, under mild conditions, such combinatorial minimal surfaces always exist. We use a technique, adapted from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Weiyan Huang , Daniel Medici , Nick Murphy , Haoyu Song , Scott A. Taylor , Muyuan Zhang

In this article, we show the existence of a nontrivial Riemann surface lamination embedded in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ by using Donaldson's construction of asymptotically holomorphic submanifolds. Further, the lamination we obtain has the property…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Divakaran Divakaran , Dheeraj Kulkarni

Given a closed Riemannian manifold $(M^{n+1},g)$,$3\leq n+1\leq7$.In this paper,we will prove that for any $c>0$,suppose the number of closed $c-CMC$ hypersurfaces is finite,then there exists a metric $h$ on $M$ such that the $c-CMC$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Xiaoxiang Jiao , Wenduo Zou

Arnlind, Hoppe and Huisken showed how to express the Gauss and mean curvature of a surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold in terms of Poisson brackets of the embedding coordinates. We generalize these expressions to the pseudo-Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Peter Hintz

Let $(M^{n+1},g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold, $n+1\geq 3$. We will prove that for all $m \in \mathbb{N}$, there exists $c^{*}(m)>0$, which depends on $g$, such that if $0<c<c^{*}(m)$, $(M,g)$ contains at least $m$ many closed $c$-CMC…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Akashdeep Dey

We develop a min-max theory for the area functional in the class of locally wedge-shaped manifolds. Roughly speaking, a locally wedge-shaped manifold is a Riemannian manifold that is allowed to have both boundary and certain types of edges.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Liam Mazurowski , Tongrui Wang