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We use rudiments of the Seiberg-Witten gluing theory for trivial circle bundles over a Riemann surface to relate de Seiberg-Witten basic classes of two $4$-manifolds containing Riemann surfaces of the same genus and self-intersection zero…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Vicente Muñoz

We start the investigation of immersions $\Psi$ of a simply connected domain $D$ into three dimensional Euclidean space $R^3$, which have constant mean curvature (CMC-immersions), and allow for a group of automorphisms of $D$ which leave…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Josef Dorfmeister , Guido Haak

We address the problem of integrability of the sub-Riemannian mean curvature of an embedded hypersurface around isolated characteristic points. The main contribution of this note is the introduction of a concept of mildly degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Tommaso Rossi

We consider a higher-order Henneberg-type minimal surfaces family using the generalized Weierstrass--Enneper representation in four-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^4$. We derive explicit parametric equations for the surface and determine its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Erhan Güler , Magdalena Toda

Weingarten surfaces are those whose principal curvatures satisfy a functional relation, whose set of solutions is called the curvature diagram or the W-diagram of the surface. Making use of the notion of geometric linear momentum of a plane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Paula Carretero , Ildefonso Castro

We derive the Weierstrass (or spinor) representation for surfaces in three-dimensional Lie groups Nil, \tilde{SL}_2, and Sol with Thurston's geometries and establish the generating equations for minimal surfaces in these groups. By using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry A. Berdinsky , Iskander A. Taimanov

We consider Lie minimal surfaces, the critical points of the simplest Lie sphere invariant energy, in Riemannian space forms. These surfaces can be characterized via their Euler-Lagrange equations, which take the form of differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Joseph Cho , Masaya Hara , Denis Polly , Tomohiro Tada

We develop a modulus method for surface families inside a domain in the Heisenberg group and we prove that the stretch map between two Heisenberg spherical rings is a minimiser for the mean distortion among the class of contact…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Ioannis D. Platis

Let $M$ be a simply connected homogeneous three-manifold with isometry group of dimension $4$, and let $\Sigma$ be any compact surface of genus zero immersed in $M$ whose mean, extrinsic and Gauss curvatures satisfy a smooth elliptic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

We study surface groups $\Gamma$ in $SO(4,1)$, which is the group of Mobius tranformations of $S^3$, and also the group of isometries of $\mathbb{H}^4$. We consider such $\Gamma$ so that its limit set $\Lambda_\Gamma$ is a quasi-circle in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Son Lam Ho

In loop quantum gravity, the area element of embedded spatial surfaces is given by a well-defined operator. We further characterize the quantized geometry of such surfaces by proposing definitions for operators quantizing scalar curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 David Grüber , Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Zilker

Motivated by the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations of the classical braid groups, we study the homology of unordered configurations in an orientable genus-$g$ surface with one boundary component, over non-commutative local systems…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Christian Blanchet , Martin Palmer , Awais Shaukat

We study two aspects of the loop group formulation for isometric immersions with flat normal bundle of space forms. The first aspect is to examine the loop group maps along different ranges of the loop parameter. This leads to various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-06 David Brander

We present a general construction of embedded minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^n$ and one-phase free boundaries joined by a smooth interpolation by capillary hypersurfaces. This framework recovers all known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis

A translation surface in the Heisenberg group $\mathrm{Nil}_3$ is a surface constructed by multiplying (using the group operation) two curves. We completely classify minimal translation surfaces in the Heisenberg group $\mathrm{Nil}_3$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-11 J. -I. Inoguchi , R. López , M. I. Munteanu

Minimal surfaces in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group can be constructed by means of a Riemannian approximation scheme, as limit of Riemannian minimal surfaces. We study the regularity of Lipschitz, non-characteristic minimal surfaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-23 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti , Maria Manfredini

In this paper we study areas (called p-areas) and volumes for parametric surfaces in the 3D-Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}_1$, which is considered as a flat model of pseudo-hermitian manifolds. We derive the formulas of p-areas and volumes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Yen-Chang Huang

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

This survey paper investigates, from a purely geometric point of view, Daniel's isometric conjugation between minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces immersed in homogeneous Riemannian three-manifolds with isometry group of dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Jesús Castro-Infantes , José M. Manzano , Francisco Torralbo

In this paper, we consider minimal graphs in the three-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$. We mainly estimate the Gaussian curvature of such surfaces. We consider the minimal disks and minimal graphs bounded by two Jordan…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 David Kalaj