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We show that, given $d \geq 4$ and two closed connected oriented PL $4$-manifolds $M$ and $N$ such that $N$ has a handle decomposition with no $1$- and $3$-handles, there exists a $d$-fold simple branched covering $p \colon M \darrow{d} N$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Valentina Bais , Riccardo Piergallini , Daniele Zuddas

We provide new branched covering representations for bounded and/or non-compact 4-manifolds, which extend the known ones for closed 4-manifolds. Assuming $M$ to be a connected oriented PL 4-manifold, our main results are the following: (1)…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Riccardo Piergallini , Daniele Zuddas

Abstract deformations of the CR structure of a compact strictly pseudoconvex hypersurface $M$ in $\mathbb{C}^2$ are encoded by complex functions on $M$. In sharp contrast with the higher dimensional case, the natural integrability condition…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Sean N. Curry , Peter Ebenfelt

On a finite-volume hyperbolic $3$-manifold, we establish an upper bound on the area of closed embedded surfaces with constant mean curvature at least one, depending on the mean curvature and the genus bounds. This area bound implies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Ruojing Jiang

Let M be an orientable and irreducible 3-manifold whose boundary is an incompressible torus. Suppose that M does not contain any closed nonperipheral embedded incompressible surfaces. We will show in this paper that the immersed surfaces in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tao Li

In this article, we study a free boundary isometric embedding problem for abstract Riemannian two-manifolds with the topology of the disc. Under the assumption of positive Gauss curvature and geodesic curvature of the boundary being equal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Thomas Koerber

This paper presents some finiteness results for the number of boundary slopes of immersed essential surfaces of given genus g in a compact 3-manifold with torus boundary. In the case of hyperbolic 3-manifolds we obtain uniform quadratic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , J. Hyam Rubinstein , Shicheng Wang

A compact metric surface $M$ isometrically fills a closed metric curve $C$ if $\partial M=C$ and $d_M(x,y)=d_C(x,y)$ for every $x,y\in C=\partial M$; that is, $M$ does not introduce any ``shortcuts'' between points on its boundary. Gromov's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Joseph Briggs , Chris Wells

The main theorem of this article provides sufficient conditions for a degree $d$ finite cover $M'$ of a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ to be a surface-bundle. Let $F$ be an embedded, closed and orientable surface of genus $g$, close to a minimal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Claire Renard

In this paper we prove that the unit ball $\mathbb{B}$ of $\mathbb{C}^2$ admits complete properly embedded complex curves of any given topological type. Moreover, we provide examples containing any given closed discrete subset of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Antonio Alarcon , Josip Globevnik

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

In this paper, we show that if $R$ is a compact Riemann surface and $M=R\setminus\,\bigcup_i D_i$ is a domain in $R$ whose complement is a union of countably many pairwise disjoint smoothly bounded closed discs $D_i$, then $M$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Antonio Alarcon , Franc Forstneric

In this paper, we first prove a compactness theorem for the space of closed embedded $f$-minimal surfaces of fixed topology in a closed three-manifold with positive Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci curvature. Then we give a Lichnerowicz type lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Haizhong Li , Yong Wei

I propose a mathematical framework for embedding an unshaped discrete lattice $L$ on a smooth manifold $M$. This framework simplifies complex concepts in pure mathematics and physics by connecting discrete lattice structures with continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Francesco D'Agostino

We prove a theorem on equivariant maps implying the following two corollaries: (1) Let N and M be compact orientable n-manifolds with boundaries such that M\subset N, the inclusion M\to N induces an isomorphism in integral cohomology, both…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-07-06 D. Goncalves , A. Skopenkov

In this paper, we prove that every conformal minimal immersion of a compact bordered Riemann surface $M$ into a minimally convex domain $D\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ can be approximated, uniformly on compacts in $\mathring M=M\setminus bM$, by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Antonio Alarcon , Barbara Drinovec Drnovsek , Franc Forstneric , Francisco J. Lopez

A sequence of constant mean curvature surfaces $\Sigma_j$ with mean curvature $H_j \to \infty$ in a three-dimensional manifold $M$ condenses to a compact and connected graph $\Gamma$ consisting of a finite union of curves if $\Sigma_j$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Adrian Butscher

We show that for an immersed two-sided minimal surface in $R^3$, there is a lower bound on the index depending on the genus and number of ends. Using this, we show the nonexistence of an embedded minimal surface in $R^3$ of index $2$, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Otis Chodosh , Davi Maximo

Suppose $\delta$ is a generic immersed closed curve in the boundary of a 3-manifold M and $\delta$ is null-homotopic in M. Then $\delta$ can be displaced by a height function in a collar of the boundary so that the resulting simple closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Michael Freedman , Martin Scharlemann

We prove a transversality "lifting property" for compactified configuration spaces as an application of the multijet transversality theorem: given a submanifold of configurations of points on an embedding of a compact manifold $M$ in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jason Cantarella , Elizabeth Denne , John McCleary