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We prove some half-space theorems for minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group Nil_3 and the Lie group Sol_3 endowed with their left-invariant Riemannian metrics. If S is a properly immersed minimal surface in Nil_3 that lies on one side of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Benoit Daniel , William H. Meeks , Harold Rosenberg

Unstable minimal surfaces are the unstable stationary points of the Dirichlet-Integral. In order to obtain unstable solutions, the method of the gradient flow together with the minimax-principle is generally used. The application of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-30 Hwajeong Kim

We prove that closed surfaces of all topological types, except for the non-orientable odd-genus ones, can be minimally embedded in the Riemannian product of a sphere and a circle of arbitrary radius. We illustrate it by obtaining some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-20 José M. Manzano , Julia Plehnert , Francisco Torralbo

Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces of constant curvature have been considered recently, particularly as these products arise as spaces of oriented geodesics of 3-dimensional space-forms. This papers considers more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Nikos Georgiou , Brendan Guilfoyle

In this paper, we show that there are non-properly embedded minimal surfaces with finite topology in a simply connected Riemannian 3-manifold with nonpositive curvature. We show this result by constructing a non-properly embedded minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Baris Coskunuzer

We study geometric properties of compact stable minimal surfaces with boundary in homogeneous 3-manifolds $X$ that can be expressed as a semidirect product of $\mathbb{R}^2$ with $\mathbb{R}$ endowed with a left invariant metric. For any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 William H. Meeks , Pablo Mira , Joaquin Perez

In this note, we show that the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in any codimension is unique in the space of distance-decreasing maps. This follows as a corollary of the following stability theorem: if a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yng-Ing Lee , Mu-Tao Wang

Invariant minimal surfaces in the real special linear group of degree 2 with canonical Riemannian and Lorentzian metrics are studied. Constant mean curvature surfaces with vertically harmonic Gau{\ss} map are classified.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Jun-ichi Inoguchi

In (the surface of) a convex polytope P^3 in R^4, an area-minimizing surface avoids the vertices of P and crosses the edges orthogonally. In a smooth Riemannian manifold M with a group of isometries G, an area-minimizing G-invariant…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Morgan

We study symmetric minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional Heisenberg group $\mathrm{Nil}_3$ using the generalized Weierstrass type representation, the so-called loop group method. In particular, we will discuss how to construct minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Shimpei Kobayashi

It is a well known phenomenon that many classical minimal surfaces in Euclidean space also exist with higher dihedral symmetry. More precisely, these surfaces are solutions to free boundary problems in a wedge bounded by two vertical planes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Ramazan Yol

Lawson and Osserman proved that the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system is not always solvable in the class of Lipschitz maps. However, it is known that minimizing sequences (for area) of Lipschitz graphs converge to objects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Connor Mooney , Ovidiu Savin

We prove that a connected properly immersed minimal surface in Euclidean 3-space with infinite symmetry group whose intersection with a ball of radius R is less than 2\piR^2 is a plane, a catenoid or a Scherk singly-periodic minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William H. Meeks , Michael Wolf

We study nonlocal minimal surfaces as a new approximation theory for the area functional, and more specifically in the context of Yau's conjecture on the existence of minimal surfaces in closed three-dimensional manifolds. This programme…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Enric Florit-Simon

We construct a parabolic entire minimal graph $S$ over a finite topology complete Riemannian surface $\Sigma$ of curvature $-1$ and infinite area (thus of non-parabolic conformal type). The vertical projection of this graph yields a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Laurent Mazet , Magdalena Rodriguez , Harold Rosenberg

We give a proof of the classical Schwarz reflection principle for Jenkins-Serrin type minimal surfaces in the homogeneous three manifolds $E(\kappa, \tau)$ for $\kappa \leqslant 0$ and $\tau \geqslant 0$. In our previous paper we proved a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Ricardo Sa Earp , Eric Toubiana

We introduce a type of minimal surface in the pseudo-hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n,n}$ (with $n$ even) or $\mathbb{H}^{n+1,n-1}$ (with $n$ odd) associated to cyclic $\mathrm{SO}_0(n,n+1)$-Higg bundles. By establishing the infinitesimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Xin Nie

We construct examples of non-isotrivial algebraic families of smooth complex projective curves over a curve of genus 2. This solves a problem from Kirby's list of problems in low-dimensional topology. Namely, we show that 2 is the smallest…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jim Bryan , Ron Donagi

Minimal surfaces in a Riemannian manifold $M^n$ are surfaces which are stationary for area: the first variation of area vanishes. In this paper we focus on surfaces of the topological type of the real projective plane $\R P^2$. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Robert Gulliver

We prove that in a Riemannian manifold $M$, each function whose Hessian is proportional the metric tensor yields a weighted monotonicity theorem. Such function appears in the Euclidean space, the round sphere $S^n$ and the hyperbolic space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Manh Tien Nguyen