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We consider surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature immersed in 3-dimensional manifolds, and we strengthen the compactness result of Labourie in the case where the ambient manifold is 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. This allows us to prove…

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In this paper, we consider the existence of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces with prescribed gradient image. Let $\Omega$ and $\tilde{\Omega}$ be uniformly convex bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary. We show that…

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We describe a novel technique for solving the Plateau problem for constant curvature hypersurfaces based on recent work of Harvey and Lawson. This is illustrated by an existence theorem for hypersurfaces of constant Gaussian curvature in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Andrew Clarke , Graham Smith

We consider prescribed mean curvature equations whose solutions are minimal surfaces, constant mean curvature surfaces, or capillary surfaces. We consider both Dirichlet boundary conditions for Plateau problems and nonlinear Neumann…

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We define and prove the existence of unique solutions of an asymptotic Plateau problem for spacelike maximal surfaces in the pseudo-hyperbolic space of signature (2, n): the boundary data is given by loops on the boundary at infinity of the…

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In this paper we find strictly locally convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with prescribed curvature and boundary. The main result is that if the given data admits a strictly locally convex radial graph as a subsolution, we can find…

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We show that for a very general and natural class of curvature functions, the problem of finding a complete strictly convex hypersurface satisfying f({\kappa}) = {\sigma} over (0,1) with a prescribed asymptotic boundary {\Gamma} at infinity…

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We employ curvature flows without global terms to seek strictly convex, spacelike solutions of a broad class of elliptic prescribed curvature equations in the simply connected Riemannian spaceforms and the Lorentzian de Sitter space, where…

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We study the prescribed Lp curvature problem for convex capillary hypersurfaces in the Euclidean half-space. By reducing the problem to finding a convex solution of a Hessian quotient type equation with a Robin boundary condition on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Xinqun Mei , Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

We study an eigenvalue problem for prescribed $\sigma_k$-curvature equations of star-shaped, $k$-convex, closed hypersurfaces. We establish the existence of a unique eigenvalue and its associated hypersurface, which is also unique, provided…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Taehun Lee

The existence of closed hypersurfaces of prescribed curvature in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is proved provided there are barriers.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claus Gerhardt

We prove the existence of closed hypersurfaces of prescribed scalar curvature in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds provided there are barriers.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Christian Enz

In this paper, we consider the existence of mean curvature type hypersurfaces with prescribed gradient image. Let $\Omega$ and $\tilde{\Omega}$ be uniformly convex bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary. We show that there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Jiguang Bao , Rongli Huang , Qinfeng Jiang

We prove the existence of a smooth complete $3$-convex hypersurface which satisfies prescribed curvature equation $\prod\limits_{i = 1}^n (H - \kappa_i) = \big( (n - 1) \sigma \big)^n$ for $n = 4$ and has prescribed asymptotic boundary…

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On a compact manifold with boundary, the map consisting of the scalar curvature in the interior and the mean curvature on the boundary is a local surjection at generic metrics. We prove that this result may be localized to compact…

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In this paper, we study the prescribed $k$-th Weingarten curvature problem for convex capillary hypersurfaces in $\overline{\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+}$. This problem naturally extends the prescribed $k$-th Weingarten curvature problem for closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Xinqun Mei , Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

In this paper, we prove the existence of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space with prescribed boundary and whose k-th Weingarten curvature equals a given function that depends on the normal of the hypersurface. The proof is based on the…

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