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In 1970, Lawson solved the topological realization problem for minimal surfaces in the sphere, showing that any closed orientable surface can be minimally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^3$. The analogous problem for surfaces with boundary was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mikhail Karpukhin , Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

We prove that in a closed Riemannian manifold with dimension between $3$ and $7$, either there are minimal hypersurfaces with arbitrarily large area, or there exist uncountably many stable minimal hypersurfaces. Moreover, the latter case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-28 James Stevens , Ao Sun

We prove there exists a compact embedded minimal surface in a complete finite volume hyperbolic $3$-manifold $\mathcal{N}$. We also obtain a least area, incompressible, properly embedded, finite topology, $2$-sided surface. We prove a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Pascal Collin , Laurent Hauswirth , Laurent Mazet , Harold Rosenberg

We prove a structural theorem that provides a precise local picture of how a sequence of closed embedded minimal hypersurfaces with uniformly bounded index (and volume if the ambient dimension is greater than three) in a Riemannian manifold…

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

We prove the existence of minimal surfaces in a bounded convex subset of $\mathbb R^3$, $\mathcal M$, intersecting the boundary of $\mathcal M$ with a fixed contact angle. The proof is based on a min-max construction in the spirit of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Luigi De Masi , Guido De Philippis

We prove a descriptive theorem on the extrinsic geometry of an embedded minimal surface of injectivity radius zero in a homogeneously regular Riemannian three-manifold, in a certain small intrinsic neighborhood of a point of almost-minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-18 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez , Antonio Ros

We employ min-max techniques to show that the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$ contains embedded free boundary minimal surfaces with connected boundary and arbitrary genus.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Alessandro Carlotto , Giada Franz , Mario B. Schulz

For almost all Riemannian metrics (in the $C^\infty$ Baire sense) on a compact manifold with boundary $(M^{n+1},\partial M)$, $3\leq (n + 1)\leq 7$, we prove that, for any open subset $V$ of $\partial M$, there exists a compact, properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Zhichao Wang

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

This paper is the first in a series where we attempt to give a complete description of the space of all embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a fixed (but arbitrary) closed Riemannian 3-manifold. The key for understanding such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper we use min-max theory to study the existence free boundary minimal hypersurfaces (FBMHs) in compact manifolds with boundary $(M^{n+1}, \partial M, g)$, where $2\leq n\leq 6$. Under the assumption that $g$ is a local maximizer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Yucheng Tu

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 an enumerative min-max theorem that relates the number of genus g minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature to topological properties of the set of embedded surfaces of genus $\leq g$, possibly with finitely many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

In this paper, we prove uniform curvature estimates for immersed stable free boundary minimal hypersurfaces which satisfy a uniform area bound. Our result is a natural generalization of the celebrated Schoen-Simon-Yau interior curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Qiang Guang , Martin Li , Xin Zhou

We prove the multiplicity one theorem for min-max free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds with boundary of dimension between 3 and 7 for generic metrics. To approach this, we develop existence and regularity theory for free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Ao Sun , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

We prove the existence of nontrivial closed surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature with respect to elliptic integrands in closed smooth $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. The constructed min-max surfaces are smooth with at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Guido De Philippis , Antonio De Rosa

We apply the local removable singularity theorem for minimal laminations and the local picture theorem on the scale of topology to obtain two descriptive results for certain possibly singular minimal laminations of $\mathbb{R}^3$. These two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-24 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez , Antonio Ros

Using the local picture of the degeneration of sequences of minimal surfaces developed by Chodosh, Ketover and Maximo we show that in any closed Riemannian 3-manifold $(M,g)$, the genus of an embedded CMC surface can be bounded only in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Artur B. Saturnino

We prove a lower bound for the first Steklov eigenvalue of embedded minimal hypersurfaces with free boundary in a compact $n$-dimensional manifold which has nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary. When $n=3$, this implies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Ailana Fraser , Martin Li

A very interesting problem in the classical theory of minimal surfaces consists of the classification of such surfaces under some geometrical and topological constraints. In this short paper, we give a brief summary of the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Magdalena Rodriguez