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We prove that a connected properly immersed minimal surface in Euclidean 3-space with infinite symmetry group whose intersection with a ball of radius R is less than 2\piR^2 is a plane, a catenoid or a Scherk singly-periodic minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William H. Meeks , Michael Wolf

A discrete harmonic surface is a trivalent graph which satisfies the balancing condition in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space and achieves energy minimizing under local deformations. Given a topological trivalent graph, a holomorphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Motoko Kotani , Hisashi Naito

We survey what is known about minimal surfaces in $\bold R^3 $ that are complete, embedded, and have finite total curvature. The only classically known examples of such surfaces were the plane and the catenoid. The discovery by Costa, early…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 David Hoffman , Hermann Karcher

We determine all helical surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space which possess a constant ratio $a:=\kappa_1/\kappa_2$ of principal curvatures (CRPC surfaces), thus providing the first explicit CRPC surfaces beyond the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Yang Liu , Olimjoni Pirahmad , Hui Wang , Dominik L. Michels , Helmut Pottmann

The paper discovers the family of identically-derived Euclidean one-parameter even-dimensional differential linear operators with unique eigenproperties, which prove to be inherently related to the emergent characterizations of fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Dmitry Zhigalov

This is an investigation into a classification of embeddings of a surface in Euclidean $3$-space. Specifically, we consider $\mathbb{R}^3$ as having the product structure $\mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ and let $\pi:\mathbb{R}^2 \times…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-15 William W. Menasco , Margaret Nichols

At any point of a surface in the four-dimensional Euclidean space we consider the geometric configuration consisting of two figures: the tangent indicatrix, which is a conic in the tangent plane, and the normal curvature ellipse. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

In this paper we propose an elementary topological approach which unifies and extends various different results concerning fixed points and periodic points for maps defined on sets homeomorphic to rectangles embedded in euclidean spaces. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marina Pireddu , Fabio Zanolin

We study compact stable embedded minimal surfaces whose boundary is given by two collections of closed smooth Jordan curves in close planes of Euclidean 3-space. Our main result is a classification of these minimal surfaces, under certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rosanna Pearlstein

A meromorphic quadratic differential with poles of order two, on a compact Riemann surface, induces a measured foliation on the surface, with a spiralling structure at any pole that is determined by the complex residue of the differential…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Subhojoy Gupta , Michael Wolf

We extend to higher codimension earlier characterization of the equatorial disk and the critical catenoid by a pinching condition on the length of their second fundamental form among free boundary minimal surfaces in the three dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Ezequiel Barbosa , Celso Viana

We introduce a flow of maps from a compact surface of arbitrary genus to an arbitrary Riemannian manifold which has elements in common with both the harmonic map flow and the mean curvature flow, but is more effective at finding minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping

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 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

In this article a relation between curvature functionals for surfaces in the Euclidean space and area functionals in relative differential geometry will be given. Relative differential geometry can be described as the geometry of surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Steven Verpoort

We review the notion of shape tensor of an embedded manifold, which efficiently combines intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, and allows for intuitive understanding of some basic concepts of classical differential geometry, such as parallel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Vaclav Zatloukal

In this expository article, we illustrate how two independent flat structures on minimal surfaces induce a harmonic function, which captures the uniqueness of Enneper's surface.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Hojoo Lee

This paper belongs to the realm of conformal geometry and deals with Euclidean submanifolds that admit smooth variations that are infinitesimally conformal. Conformal variations of Euclidean submanifolds is a classical subject in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 M. Dajczer , M. I. Jimenez

We study nonlocal minimal surfaces as a new approximation theory for the area functional, and more specifically in the context of Yau's conjecture on the existence of minimal surfaces in closed three-dimensional manifolds. This programme…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Enric Florit-Simon

This paper studies minimal surface entropy (the exponential asymptotic growth of the number of minimal surfaces up to a given value of area) for negatively curved metrics on hyperbolic $3$-manifolds of finite volume, particularly its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ruojing Jiang , Franco Vargas Pallete