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We begin by studying the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of the semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere in n-dimensions and use this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

Factorable surfaces, i.e. graphs associated with the product of two functions of one variable, constitute a wide class of surfaces. Such surfaces in the pseudo-Galilean space with zero Gaussian and mean curvature were obtained in [1]. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Mihriban Kulahci , Alper Osman Ogrenmis

A flexible model for non-stationary Gaussian random fields on hypersurfaces is introduced.The class of random fields on curves and surfaces is characterized by an amplitude spectral density of a second order elliptic differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Erik Jansson , Annika Lang , Mike Pereira

Using Green's theorem we reduce the variation of the total mean curvature of a smooth surface in the Euclidean 3-space to a line integral of a special vector field and obtain the following well-known theorem as an immediate consequence: the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-10 Victor Alexandrov

We construct a surface of general type with invariants \( \chi = K^2 = 1 \) and torsion group \( \Bbb{Z}/{2} \). We use a double plane construction by finding a plane curve with certain singularities, resolving these, and taking the double…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Caryn Werner

We use the techniques developed in [1] to study the local average of random fields with spectral density $1/f^{\alpha}$. We study their scaling properties and show that the self-similarity of $1/f$ random fields is preserved under the local…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Hai Lin

For asymptotically flat spacetimes, using the inverse mean curvature flow, we show that any compact $2$-surface, $S_0$, whose mean curvature and its derivative for outward direction are positive in spacelike hypersurface with non-negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Tetsuya Shiromizu , Yoshimune Tomikawa , Keisuke Izumi , Hirotaka Yoshino

We compute the geodesic curvature of logarithmic spirals on surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature. In addition, we show that the asymptotic behavior of the geodesic curvature is independent of the curvature of the ambient surface. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-09 Casey Blacker , Pavel Tsyganenko

Gaussian fields $(g_x)$ on $\mathbb{Z}_q^d$ are constructed from a class of reversible long range random walks $(X_t)_{t\in \mathbb{N}}$ on $\mathbb{Z}_q^d$ in arXiv:2510.22554. The construction is from taking the covariance function of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Robert Griffiths , Shuhei Mano

An affine factorable surface of the second kind in the three dimensional pseudo-Galilean space G13 is studied depending on the invariant theory and theory of differential equation. The first and second fundamental forms, Gaussian curvature…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 H. S. Abdel-Aziz , M. Khalifa Saad , Haytham. A. Ali

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ have minimal Gaussian surface area among all sets satisfying $\Omega=-\Omega$ with fixed Gaussian volume. Let $A=A_{x}$ be the second fundamental form of $\partial\Omega$ at $x$, i.e. $A$ is the matrix of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Steven Heilman

This paper gives a detailed derivation of the surface of a tri-axial ellipsoid. The general result is in terms of the elliptic integrals of the first and second kind. It is in checked for all special cases included and the corresponding…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-04-28 Daniel Poelaert , Joachim Schniewind , Frank Janssens

In this article, we show that (i) any smooth function on compact Riemann surface with non-empty smooth boundary $ (M, \partial M, g) $ can be realized as a Gaussian curvature function; (ii) any smooth function on $ \partial M $ can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Jie Xu

Let $p$ be a positive number. Consider probability measure $\gamma_p$ with density $\varphi_p(y)=c_{n,p}e^{-\frac{|y|^p}{p}}$. We show that the maximal surface area of a convex body in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with respect to $\gamma_p$ is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Galyna Livshyts

We compute the expected value of various quantities related to the biparametric singularities of a pair of smooth centered Gaussian random fields on an n-dimensional compact manifold, such as the lengths of the critical curves and contours…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Mishal Assif P K

Cauchy's surface area formula expresses the surface area of a convex body as the average area of its orthogonal projections over all directions. While this tool is fundamental in Euclidean geometry, with applications ranging from geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sunil Arya , David M. Mount

Given a smooth simply connected planar domain, the area is bounded away from zero in terms of the maximal curvature alone. We show that in higher dimensions this is not true, and for a given maximal mean curvature we provide smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Vincenzo Ferone , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

Many applications of Gaussian random fields and Gaussian random processes are limited by the computational complexity of evaluating the probability density function, which involves inverting the relevant covariance matrix. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Theodor Bjorkmo , M. C. David Marsh

Fractional Gaussian fields are scalar-valued random functions or generalized functions on an $n$-dimensional manifold $M$, indexed by a parameter $s$. They include white noise ($s = 0$), Brownian motion ($s=1, n=1$), the 2D Gaussian free…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Sky Cao , Scott Sheffield

In this article we give a complete description of the evolution of an area decreasing map $f:M\to N$ induced by its mean curvature in the situation where $M$ and $N$ are complete Riemann surfaces with bounded geometry, $M$ being compact,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk