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In the eighties Goldman discovered a Lie algebra structure on the vector space generated by the free homotopy classes of oriented curves on an oriented surface. The Lie bracket [a,b] is defined as the signed sum over the intersection points…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Moira Chas

A Dirichlet-type problem is studied for an equation of even order with variable coefficients. A criterion for the uniqueness of a solution is given. The solution is built in the form of a Fourier series. When justifying the convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-01 B. Irgashev

This paper deals with finding surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which are as close as possible to being flat and span a given contour such that the contour is a geodesic on the sought surface. We look for a surface which minimizes the total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Tom Gilat

In classical potential theory, one can solve the Dirichlet problem on unbounded domains such as the upper half plane. These domains have two types of boundary points; the usual finite boundary points and another point at infinity. W. Woess…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Tony Perkins

In this paper we will show the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the Bj\"orling problem for minimal surfaces in a 3-dimensional Lorentzian Lie group.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Adriana A. Cintra , Francesco Mercuri , Irene I. Onnis

We study symmetric minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional Heisenberg group $\mathrm{Nil}_3$ using the generalized Weierstrass type representation, the so-called loop group method. In particular, we will discuss how to construct minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Shimpei Kobayashi

In 1966, Jenkins and Serrin gave existence and uniqueness results for infinite boundary value problems of minimal surfaces in the Euclidean space, and after that such solutions have been studied by using the univalent harmonic mapping…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Shintaro Akamine , Hiroki Fujino

We proof existence theorems for the Dirichlet problem for hypersurfaces of constant special Lagrangian curvature in Hadamard manifolds. The first results are obtained using the continuity method and approximation and then refined using two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Graham Smith

We study constant mean curvature graphs in the Riemannian 3-dimensional Heisenberg spaces ${\cal H}={\cal H}(\tau)$. Each such ${\cal H}$ is the total space of a Riemannian submersion onto the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ with geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-03 Luis J. Alias , Marcos Dajczer , Harold Rosenberg

We establish existence and uniqueness results for nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems on n-dimensional time scale domains. Time scales provide a unified framework that encompasses continuous, discrete, and hybrid settings.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Shalmali Bandyopadhyay , F. Ayça Çetinkaya , Tom Cuchta

Is it possible to obtain unbounded minimal surfaces in certain asymptotically flat 3-manifolds as a limit of solutions to a natural mountain pass problem with diverging boundaries? In this work, we give evidence that this might be true by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Rafael Montezuma

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for a class of prescribed curvature equations in Minkowski space. We prove the existence of smooth spacelike hypersurfaces with a class of prescribed curvature and general boundary data based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Mengru Guo , Heming Jiao

We prove an existence theorem for the sliding boundary variant of the Plateau problem for $2$-dimensional sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The simplest case of sufficient condition is when $n=3$ and the boundary $\Gamma$ is a finite disjoint union…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Guy David , Camille Labourie

In this paper we study surfaces in R^3 that arise as limit shapes in a class of random surface models arising from dimer models. The limit shapes are minimizers of a surface tension functional, that is, they minimize, for fixed boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Kenyon , Andrei Okounkov

The Plateau-Douglas problem asks to find an area minimizing surface of fixed or bounded genus spanning a given finite collection of Jordan curves in Euclidean space. In the present paper we solve this problem in the setting of proper metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Martin Fitzi , Stefan Wenger

We show the existence of a weak solution of a semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problem on an arbitrary open set. We make no assumptions about the open set, very mild regularity assumptions on the semilinearity, plus a coerciveness assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Reinhard Stahn

We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions of a large class of initial-boundary-value problems characterized by a quasi-linear third order equation (the third order term being dissipative) on a finite space interval with Dirichlet,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Monica De Angelis , Gaetano Fiore

We consider here a nonlinear elliptic equation in an unbounded sectorial domain of the plane. We prove the existence of a minimal solution to this equation and study its properties. We infer from this analysis some asymptotics for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-01 Olivier Goubet , Simon Labrunie

We establish existence and regularity results for boundary value problems arising from the first variation of the Willmore energy in the graphical setting. Our focus lies on two-dimensional surfaces with fixed clamped boundary conditions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Boris Gulyak

We revisit the question of existence and regularity of minimizers to weighted least gradient problems on a fixed bounded domain, subject to a Dirichlet boundary condition, in the case where the boundary data is continuous and the weight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Andres Zuniga