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We show that the Morse index of a closed minimal hypersurface in a four-dimensional Riemannian manifold cannot be bound in terms of the volume and the topological invariants of the hypersurface itself by presenting a method for constructing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Alessandro Carlotto

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold not containing any totally geodesic surface. Our main result shows that then the area of any complete surface immersed into $M$ is bounded by a multiple of its extrinsic curvature energy, i.e. by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Victor Bangert , Ernst Kuwert

In this paper, we provide the lower bounds of the first non-zero basic eigenvalue on a closed singular Riemannian manifold $(M,\mathcal{F})$ with basic mean curvature that depends on the given non-negative lower bound of the Ricci curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Bach Tran

Let $M$ be a compact smooth Riemannian manifold of finite dimension $n+1$ with boundary $\partial M$and $\partial M$ is a compact $n$-dimensional submanifold of $M$. We show that for generic Riemannian metric $g$, all the critical points of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Marco Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

We prove, as our main theorem, the finiteness of topological type of a complete open Riemannian manifold $M$ with a base point $p \in M$ whose radial curvature at $p$ is bounded from below by that of a non-compact model surface of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-07 Kei Kondo , Minoru Tanaka

We prove that the integral of scalar curvature over a Riemannian manifold is uniformly bounded below in terms of its dimension, upper bounds on sectional curvature and volume, and a lower bound on injectivity radius. This is an analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Tadashi Fujioka

Any closed, connected Riemannian manifold $M$ can be smoothly embedded by its Laplacian eigenfunction maps into $\mathbb{R}^m$ for some $m$. We call the smallest such $m$ the maximal embedding dimension of $M$. We show that the maximal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-06 Jonathan Bates

In this paper, we investigate minimal submanifolds in Euclidean space with positive index of relative nullity. Let $M^m$ be a complete Riemannian manifold and let $f\colon M^m\to\R^n$ be a minimal isometric immersion with index of relative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-22 M. Dajczer , Th. Kasioumis , A. Savas-Halilaj , Th. Vlachos

We study Riemannian manifolds with boundary under a lower $N$-weighted Ricci curvature bound for $N$ at most $1$, and under a lower weighted mean curvature bound for the boundary. We examine rigidity phenomena in such manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Yohei Sakurai

In this paper we extend to non-compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary the use of two important tools in the geometric analysis of compact spaces, namely, the weak maximum principle for subharmonic functions and the integration by parts.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Debora Impera , Stefano Pigola , Alberto G. Setti

Given a closed Riemannian manifold $M$ and $b\geq2$ closed connected submanifolds $N_j\subset M$ of codimension at least $2$, we prove that the first non-zero eigenvalue of the domain $\Omega_\varepsilon\subset M$ obtained by removing the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Jade Brisson

This article proves that if M is a smooth manifold of dimension at least four, then for generic choice of metric on M, all prime parametrized minimal surfaces in M are free of branch points and lie on nondegenerate critical submanifolds for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-05 John Douglas Moore

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 supremum of principal curvatures of a minimal embedded disc in hyperbolic three-space spanning a quasicircle in the boundary at infinity is estimated in a sublinear way by the norm of the quasicircle in the sense of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Andrea Seppi

In this paper, we derive a new form of maximum principle for smooth functions on a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold $M$ for which there exists a bounded vector field $X$ such that $\langle\nabla f,X\rangle\geq 0$ on $M$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Luis J. Alias , Antonio Caminha , F. Yure do Nascimento

Let $M$ be a compact 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and a nonempty boundary $\partial M$. Fraser and Li \cite{Fraser&Li} established a compactness theorem for the space of compact, properly embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Pak Tung Ho , Juncheol Pyo , Keomkyo Seo

We develop a general deformation principle for families of Riemannian metrics on smooth manifolds with possibly non-compact boundary, preserving lower scalar curvature bounds. The principle is used in order to strengthen boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Helge Frerichs

Let $(M, g)$ be an $n$-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with $Ric(M)\geq-(n-1)Q$, where $Q\geq0$ is a constant. We obtain an interior gradient bound for minimal graphs in $M\times R$ under some technical assumptions. For details,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma , Dezhong Chen

In this paper, we develop a general existence theory for properly embedded minimal surfaces with free boundary in any compact Riemannian 3-manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$. The main feature of our result is that no convexity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Martin Li

Using the local picture of the degeneration of sequences of minimal surfaces developed by Chodosh, Ketover and Maximo we show that in any closed Riemannian 3-manifold $(M,g)$, the genus of an embedded CMC surface can be bounded only in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Artur B. Saturnino