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Minimal surfaces in closed 3-manifolds are classically constructed via the Almgren-Pitts approach. The Allen-Cahn approximation has proved to be a powerful alternative, and Chodosh and Mantoulidis (in Ann. Math. 2020) used it to give a new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Hardy Chan , Serena Dipierro , Joaquim Serra , Enrico Valdinoci

Initiated by the work of Uhlenbeck in late 1970s, we study questions about the existence, multiplicity and asymptotic behavior for minimal immersions of closed surface in some hyperbolic three-manifold, with prescribed conformal structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Zheng Huang , Marcello Lucia , Gabriella Tarantello

We discover some very general configuration results for constructing area-minimizing cones. In particular, given any closed minimal submanifold in some Euclidean sphere, every cone over the minimal product of sufficiently many copies of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yongsheng Zhang

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

For compact Riemannian manifolds with convex boundary, B.White proved the following alternative: Either there is an isoperimetric inequality for minimal hypersurfaces or there exists a closed minimal hypersurface, possibly with a small…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Victor Bangert , Nena Roettgen

We prove a version of the well-known Denjoy-Ahlfors theorem about the number of asymptotic values of an entire function for properly immersed minimal surfaces of arbitrary codimension in R^N. The finiteness of the number of ends is proved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-03 Vladimir G. Tkachev

We extend an energy introduced by Mather to the setting of Almgren-Pitts min-max theory and obtain a parametric, higher-dimensional analogue of Mather's variational barrier theory for twist maps and geodesics on tori. We use this energy to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Hoan Nguyen

We study the constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space whose asymptotic boundaries are closed codimension-1 submanifolds in sphere at infinity. We consider CMC hypersurfaces as generalizations of minimal hypersurfaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baris Coskunuzer

We introduce nonlocal minimal surfaces on closed manifolds and establish a far-reaching Yau-type result: in every closed, $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold we construct infinitely many nonlocal $s$-minimal surfaces. We prove that, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Michele Caselli , Enric Florit-Simon , Joaquim Serra

In this paper, we give a new proof of the splitting theorem on manifolds with nonnegative spectral Ricci curvature proved in [APX24, CMMR24, HW26]. Furthermore, by constructing weighted minimizing geodesics at infinity, we show that minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Han Hong , Gaoming Wang

Let $\Sigma^2 \subset M^3$ be a minimal surface of index 0 or 1. Assume that a neighborhood of $\Sigma$ can be foliated by constant mean curvature (cmc) hypersurfaces. We use min-max theory and the catenoid estimate to construct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Liam Mazurowski

Understanding non-Haken 3-manifolds is central to many current endeavors in 3-manifold topology. We describe some results for closed orientable surfaces in non-Haken manifolds, and extend Fox's theorem for submanifolds of the 3-sphere to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin Scharlemann , Abigail Thompson

Let $(M,g)$ be a complete $(n+1)$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with $2\leq n\leq 6$. Our main theorem generalizes the solution of S.-T. Yau's conjecture on the abundance of minimal surfaces and builds on a result of M. Gromov. Suppose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Antoine Song

The aim of this work is to study how the asymptotic boundary of a minimal hypersurface in H^nxR determines the behavior of the hypersurface at finite points, in several geometric situations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Barbara Nelli , Ricardo Sa Earp , Eric Toubiana

Already in $\bf{R}^4$, there are many known examples of minimal hypersurfaces, yet few structural results. We show that minimal submanifolds, of any dimension, that are confined in space are very restricted. It is well-known that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We perform a replacement procedure in order to produce a free boundary minimal surface whose area achieves the min-max value over all disk sweepouts of a manifold whose boundary lie in a submanifold. Our result is based on a proof of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Paul Laurain , Romain Petrides

We show that the image of a nonconstant conformal harmonic map $\mathbb C\to \mathbb R^3$, not necessarily proper and possibly with branch points, intersects every properly embedded nonflat minimal surface of bounded curvature in $\mathbb…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Franc Forstneric

We study global aspects of the mean curvature flow of non-separating hypersurfaces $S$ in closed manifolds. For instance, if $S$ has non-vanishing mean curvature, we show its level set flow converges smoothly towards an embedded minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Marco A. M. Guaraco , Vanderson Lima , Franco Vargas Pallete

We study a global theory of affine maximal surfaces with singularities, which are called affine maximal maps and defined by Aledo--Mart\' inez--Mil\' an. In this paper, we define a special subclass of such surfaces other than improper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Jun Matsumoto

We show that the existence of an embedded compact, boundaryless hypersurface S of strictly positive mean curvature in a noncompact, connected, complete Riemannian n-manifold N of nonnegative Ricci curvature implies that the homomorphism…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-07 I. P. Costa e Silva