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We study surfaces with one constant principal curvature in Riemannian and Lorentzian three-dimensional space forms. Away from umbilic points they are characterized as one-parameter foliations by curves of constant curvature, each of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-21 Henri Anciaux

We construct minimal surfaces in hyperbolic and anti-de Sitter 3-space with the topology of a $n$-punctured sphere by loop group factorization methods. The end behavior of the surfaces is based on the asymptotics of Delaunay-type surfaces,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Alexander I. Bobenko , Sebastian Heller , Nicholas Schmitt

Near the end of his life, Bernhard Riemann made the marvelous discovery of a 1-parameter family $R_{\lambda}$, $\lambda\in (0,\infty)$, of periodic properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the property that every horizontal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-20 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez

We give a complete topological classification of minimal surfaces in Euclidian three-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles Frohman , William H. Meeks

Piecewise Euclidean structures (identified solid Euclidean polyhedra) on topological 3-dimensional manifolds and pseudo-manifolds are constructed so that they admit pseudo-foliations, a generalized type of foliation. The construction of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Simon P Morgan

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 show that there are minimal graphs in R^{n+1} whose intersection with the portion of the horizontal hyperplane contained in the unit ball has any prescribed geometry, up to a small deformation. The proof hinges on the construction of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Alberto Enciso , M. Angeles Garcia-Ferrero , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We study knots in $\mathbb{S}^3$ obtained by the intersection of a minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^4$ with a small 3-sphere centered at a branch point. We construct examples of new minimal knots. In particular we show the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Soret , Marina Ville

In this paper, we prove that minimal hypersurfaces when $n\geq 3$ and nonzero constant mean curvature hypersurfaces when $n\geq2$ foliated by spheres in parallel horizontal hyperplanes in ${\mathbb{H}}^n \times \mathbb{R}$ must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-23 Keomkyo Seo

Minimal and CMC surfaces in $S^3$ can be treated via their associated family of flat $\SL(2,\C)$-connections. In this the paper we parametrize the moduli space of flat $\SL(2,\C)$-connections on the Lawson minimal surface of genus 2 which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Sebastian Heller

We study minimal Lagrangian surfaces in the complex hyperbolic quadric. We show that minimality of a Lagrangian surface is characterized by a loop of flat connections, which yields an associated $\mathbb S^1$-family of isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Shimpei Kobayashi , Sihao Zeng

We consider Lie minimal surfaces, the critical points of the simplest Lie sphere invariant energy, in Riemannian space forms. These surfaces can be characterized via their Euler-Lagrange equations, which take the form of differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Joseph Cho , Masaya Hara , Denis Polly , Tomohiro Tada

For each integer $k \geq 2$, we apply gluing methods to construct sequences of minimal surfaces embedded in the round $3$-sphere. We produce two types of sequences, all desingularizing collections of intersecting Clifford tori. Sequences of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Nikolaos Kapouleas , David Wiygul

In this paper we introduce the notion of contact angle for an immersed surface in three dimensional sphere. We deduce formulas for the Laplacian and for the Gaussian curvature, and we classify minimal surfaces in $S^3$ with constant contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes Jose Antonio Verderesi

We establish a general min-max type theorem that produces minimal surfaces with prescribed genus in 3-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. An important intermediate step is to show that, in a generic metric with positive Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

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

The volume of a k-dimensional foliation $\mathcal{F}$ in a Riemannian manifold $M^{n}$ is defined as the mass of image of the Gauss map, which is a map from M to the Grassmann bundle of k-planes in the tangent bundle. Generalizing a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabiano Brito , David L. Johnson

In this paper, we prove that the $3$-sphere endowed with an arbitrary Riemannian metric either contains at least two embedded minimal $2$-spheres or admits an optimal foliation by $2$-spheres. This generalizes recent results by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Salim Deaibes

In this paper, we employ the loop group method to study the construction of minimal Lagrangian surfaces in the complex projective plane for which the surface is contractible. We present several new classes of minimal Lagrangian surfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Hui Ma

For a compact 3-manifold $M$ which is a circle bundle over a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ with even Euler number $e(M)$, and with a Riemannian metric compatible with the bundle projection, there exists a compact minimal surface $S$ in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Pablo M. Chacon , David L. Johnson