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We investigate minimal surfaces passing a given curve in $R^{3}$. Using the Frenet frame of a given curve and isothermal parameter, we derive the necessary and sufficient condition for minimal surface. Also we derive the parametric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Sedat Kahyaoğlu , Emin Kasap

We prove that a closed embedded minimal surface in the round three-sphere which satisfies the symmetries of a Lawson surface and has the same genus is congruent to the Lawson surface.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Nikolaos Kapouleas , David Wiygul

We introduce a new class of surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space, called surfaces of osculating circles, using the concept of osculating circle of a regular curve. These surfaces contain a uniparametric family of planar lines of curvature. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Rafael López , Cetin Camci , Ali Ucum , Kazim Ilarslan

This note provides some new perspectives and calculations regarding an interesting known family of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$. The surfaces in this family are the catenoids, parabolic catenoids and tall rectangles.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Leonor Ferrer , Francisco Martín , Rafe Mazzeo , Magdalena Rodríguez

Caffarelli-Hardt-Simon used the minimal surface equation on the Simons cone $C(S^3\times S^3)$ to generate newer examples of minimal hypersurfaces with isolated singularities. Hardt-Simon proved that every area-minimizing quadratic cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Vishnu Nandakumaran

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

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

We introduce canonical principal parameters on any strongly regular minimal surface in the three dimensional sphere and prove that any such a surface is determined up to a motion by its normal curvature function satisfying the Sinh-Poisson…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-08 Georgi Ganchev

In recent work with Kusner, we developed a method, based on the equivariant optimization of Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues, for producing minimal surfaces of prescribed topology in low-dimensional balls and spheres. We used the method to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Mikhail Karpukhin , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

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

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

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem about spherical helicoidal (in particular, rotational) surfaces with prescribed mean or Gaussian curvature in terms of a continuous function depending on the distance to its axis. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

We suggest a new definition for discrete minimal surfaces in terms of sphere packings with orthogonally intersecting circles. These discrete minimal surfaces can be constructed from Schramm's circle patterns. We present a variational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander I. Bobenko , Tim Hoffmann , Boris A. Springborn

We describe several methods to construct minimal foliations by hyperbolic surfaces on closed 3-manifolds, and discuss the properties of the examples thus obtained.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Fernando Alcalde Cuesta , Françoise Dal'Bo , Matilde Martínez , Alberto Verjovsky

We construct embedded closed minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere, resembling two parallel copies of the Clifford torus, joined by m^2 small catenoidal bridges symmetrically arranged along a square lattice of points on the torus.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolaos Kapouleas , Seong-Deog Yang

In this paper we study surfaces in Euclidean 3-space that satisfy a Weingarten condition of linear type as $\kappa_1=m \kappa_2 +n$, where $m$ and $n$ are real numbers and $\kappa_1$ and $\kappa_2$ denote the principal curvatures at each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Rafael López

Extending work of Kapouleas and Yang, for any integers $N \geq 2$, $k, \ell \geq 1$, and $m$ sufficiently large, we apply gluing methods to construct in the round $3$-sphere a closed embedded minimal surface that has genus $k\ell…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-28 David Wiygul

We prove that any manifold diffeomorphic to $S^3$ and endowed with a generic metric contains at least two embedded minimal two-spheres. The existence of at least one minimal two-sphere was obtained by Simon-Smith in 1983. Our approach…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Robert Haslhofer , Daniel Ketover

In this work, we study spacelike surfaces in Minkowski space $E_1^3$ foliated by pieces of circles and that satisfy a linear Weingarten condition of type $a H+b K=c$, where $a,b$ and $c$ are constant and $H$ and $K$ denote the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Ozgur Boyacioglu Kalkan , Rafael López , Derya Saglam

We give a local analytic characterization that a minimal surface in the 3-sphere $\, \ES^3 \subset \R^4$ defined by an irreducible cubic polynomial is one of the Lawson's minimal tori. This provides an alternative proof of the result by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Joe S. Wang