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We survey what is known about minimal surfaces in $\bold R^3 $ that are complete, embedded, and have finite total curvature. The only classically known examples of such surfaces were the plane and the catenoid. The discovery by Costa, early…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 David Hoffman , Hermann Karcher

We prove that strictly stationary spacetimes cannot contain closed trapped nor marginally trapped surfaces. The result is purely geometric and holds in arbitrary dimension. Other results concerning the interplay between (generalized)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Marc Mars , José M. M. Senovilla

We prove that for any open Riemann surface $M$ and any non constant harmonic function $h:M \to \mathbb{R},$ there exists a complete conformal minimal immersion $X:M \to \mathbb{R}^3$ whose third coordinate function coincides with $h.$ As a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-23 Antonio Alarcon , Isabel Fernandez , Francisco J. Lopez

In this note, we construct two minimal surfaces of general type with geometric genus p_g= 3, irregularity q = 0, self-intersection of the canonical divisor K^22 =20,24 such that their canonical map is of degree 20. In one of these surfaces,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Nguyen Bin

We show that in any triangulated 3-manifold, every index n topologically minimal surface can be transformed to a surface which has local indices (as computed in each tetrahedron) that sum to at most n. This generalizes classical theorems of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-18 David Bachman

In the previous paper, Takahasi and the authors generalized the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean n-space to that of surfaces with holomorphic Gauss map in certain class of non-compact symmetric spaces. It also includes the theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Kokubu , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

We prove the existence of a complete, embedded, singly periodic minimal surface, whose quotient by vertical translations has genus one and two ends. The existence of this surface was announced in our paper in {\it Bulletin of the AMS},…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 David Hoffman , Hermann Karcher , Fusheng Wei

In this paper we consider three dimensional upper half space $\mathbb{H}^3 $ equipped with various Kropina metrics obtained by deformation of hyperbolic metric of $\mathbb{H}^3$ through $1$-forms and obtain a partial differential equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Ashok Kumar , Ranadip Gangopadhyay , Bankteshwar Tiwari , Hemangi Madhusudan Shah

We investigate surfaces with constant harmonic-mean curvature one (HMC-1 surfaces) in hyperbolic three-space. We allow them to have certain kinds of singularities, and discuss some global properties. As well as flat surfaces and surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Kokubu

We study configurations of immersed curves in surfaces and surfaces in 3-manifolds. Among other results, we show that primitive curves have only finitely many configurations which minimize the number of double points. We give examples of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , Peter Scott

We generalize the classical Henneberg minimal surface by giving an infinite family of complete, finitely branched, non-orientable, stable minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. These surfaces can be grouped into subfamilies depending on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-28 David Moya , Joaquín Pérez

This is a preliminary note on a family of minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere defined by a compatible fourth order equation. The minimal surfaces are geometrically characterized either by having a surface of revolution like induced metric, or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Joe S. Wang

We consider a surface $M$ immersed in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with induced metric $g=\psi\delta_2$ where $\delta_2$ is the two dimensional Euclidean metric. We then construct a system of partial differential equations that constrain $M$ to lift to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aaron Peterson , Stephen Taylor

A class of spiral minimal surfaces in E^3 is constructed using a symmetry reduction. The new surfaces are invariant with respect to the composition of rotation and dilatation. The solutions are obtained in closed form %through the Legendre…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-15 A. V. Kiselev , V. I. Varlamov

Minimal surfaces and Einstein manifolds are among the most natural structures in differential geometry. Whilst minimal surfaces are well understood, Einstein manifolds remain far less so. This exposition synthesises together a set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Mia Beard

In this paper some existence results for the minimal P-symmetric periodic solutions are proved for first order autonomous Hamiltonian systems when the Hamiltonian function is superquadratic, asymptotically linear and subquadratic. These are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Shanshan Tang

We describe some topological structure in the set of all surfaces with finitely many singularities in the 3-sphere. As an application, we prove that every Riemannian 3-sphere of positive Ricci curvature contains, for every g, a genus g…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu

It is well known that the only surfaces that are simultaneously minimal in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and maximal in $\mathbb{L}^3$ are open pieces of helicoids (in the region in which they are spacelike) and of spacelike planes (O. Kobayashi 1983).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Magdalena Caballero

In classical differential geometry, a central question has been whether abstract surfaces with given geometric features can be realized as surfaces in Euclidean space. Inspired by the rich theory of embedded triply periodic minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Dami Lee

We report some minimal surfaces that can be seen as copies of a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) related by reflections in parallel mirrors. We call them minimal twin surfaces for the resemblance with twin crystal. Brakke's Surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Hao Chen