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Using the Perron method, we prove the existence of hypersurfaces of prescribed special Lagrangian curvature with prescribed boundary inside complete Riemannian manifolds of non-positive curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-05 Graham Smith

A class of surfaces-graphs in a Riemannian 3-space with a prescribed projection of one field of principal directions onto a surface $\Pi$ is considered. A problem of determination of such surfaces when both principal curvatures are given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-11 Vladimir Rovenski , Leonid Zelenko

In this paper we generalize in Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$ the two-dimensional analogue of the catenary of Euclidean space. We solve the Dirichlet problem for bounded mean convex domains and spacelike boundary data that have a spacelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Rafael López

In this paper, we express surfaces parametrically through a given spacelike (timelike) asymptotic curve using the Frenet frame of the curve in Minkowski 3-space. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the coefficients of the Frenet frame…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Gulnur Saffak , Ergin Bayram , Emin Kasap

In this paper, we consider a Minkowski inequality for a domain supported on any umbilical hypersurface with free boundary in space forms. We generalize the main result in \cite{Xia} into free boundary case and obtain a free boundary version…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Jinyu Guo

This article concerns a natural generalization of the classical asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space. We prove the existence of a smooth complete hypersurface of constant scalar curvature with a prescribed asymptotic boundary at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Bin Wang

We obtain a gradient estimate for the Gauss maps from complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space into the hyperbolic space. As applications, we prove a Bernstein theorem which says that if the image of the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Huai-Dong Cao , Ying Shen , Shunhui Zhu

In this paper we study curvature types of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional (normed or) Minkowski spaces. By endowing the surface with a normal vector field, which is a transversal vector field given by the ambient Birkhoff…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Ralph Teixeira

Solving the Plateau problem means to find the surface with minimal area among all surfaces with a given boundary. Part of the problem actually consists of giving a suitable definition to the notions of 'surface', 'area' and 'boundary'. In…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Edoardo Cavallotto

In this note we consider the problem of local classification of Bonnet pairs of surfaces in 3-dimensional Minkowski space. We use split quaternions in a way similar to the use of quaternions in, arXiv:dg-ga/9610006, for the solution in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Robert Salom

We study rotational surfaces with constant Minkowski Gaussian curvature and rotational surfaces with constant Minkowski mean curvature in a $3$-dimensional normed space with rotationally symmetric norm. We have a generalization of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Makoto Sakaki

In this paper we construct an example of a weakly complete maximal surface in the Lorentz-Minkowski space L^3, which is bounded by a hyperboloid. Moreover, all the singularities of our example are of lightlike type.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Antonio Alarcon

Assume you are given a finite configuration $\Gamma$ of disjoint rectifiable Jordan curves in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The Plateau-Douglas problem asks whether there exists a minimizer of area among all compact surfaces of genus at most $p$ which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Paul Creutz , Martin Fitzi

Consider a convex cone in three-dimensional Minkowski space which either contains the lightcone or is contained in it. This work considers mean curvature flow of a proper spacelike strictly mean convex disc in the cone which is graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Wilhelm Klingenberg , Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, we establish some rigidity theorems for space-like hypersurfaces in Minkowski space by using a Weinberger-type approach with P-functions and integral identities. Firstly, for space-like hypersurfaces $M$ represented as graphs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianhua Chen , Haiyun Deng , Haiqin Xie , Jiabin Yin

Consider a set of $r$ convex $d$-polytopes $P_1,P_2,...,P_r$, where $d\ge{}3$ and $r\ge{}2$, and let $n_i$ be the number of vertices of $P_i$, $1\le{}i\le{}r$. It has been shown by Fukuda and Weibel that the number of $k$-faces of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Menelaos I. Karavelas , Eleni Tzanaki

We prove an optimal restriction theorem for an arbitrary homogeneous polynomial hypersurface (of degree at least 2) in R^3, with affine curvature introduced as mitigating factor.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-08-23 A. Carbery , C. Kenig , S. Ziesler

The level surfaces of solutions to the eikonal equation define null or characteristic surfaces. In this note we study, in Minkowski space, properties of these surfaces. In particular we are interested both in the singularities of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Frittelli , E. T. Newman , G. Silva-Ortigoza

The 2-parameter family of certain homogeneous Lorentzian 3-manifolds which includes Minkowski 3-space and anti-de Sitter 3-space is considered. Each homogeneous Lorentzian 3-manifold in the 2-parameter family has a solvable Lie group…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Sungwook Lee

We prove the first polynomial bound on the number of monotonic homotopy moves required to tighten a collection of closed curves on any compact orientable surface, where the number of crossings in the curve is not allowed to increase at any…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Hsien-Chih Chang , Arnaud de Mesmay