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We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

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A minimal space-like surface in Minkowski space-time is said to be of general type if it is free of degenerate points. The fact that minimal space-like surfaces of general type in Minkowski space-time admit canonical parameters of the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian three-dimensional manifold with boundary. We prove the compactness of the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Sergio Almaraz , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Shaodong Wang

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

A mixed type surface is a connected regular surface in a Lorentzian 3-manifold with non-empty spacelike and timelike point sets. The induced metric of a mixed type surface is a signature-changing metric, and their lightlike points may be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Atsufumi Honda , Kentaro Saji , Keisuke Teramoto

We consider the timelike minimal surface problem in Minkowski spacetimes and show local and global existence of such surfaces having arbitrary dimension $\geq 2$ and arbitrary co-dimension, provided they are initially close to a flat plane.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Allen , Lars Andersson , James Isenberg

We study singularities of spacelike, constant (non-zero) mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space $L^3$. We show how to solve the singular Bj\"orling problem for such surfaces, which is stated as follows: given a real…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-01 David Brander

We study smoothness of generalized solutions of nonlocal elliptic problems in plane bounded domains with piecewise smooth boundary. The case where the support of nonlocal terms can intersect the boundary is considered. We announce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Pavel Gurevich

For asymptotically flat spacetimes, using the inverse mean curvature flow, we show that any compact $2$-surface, $S_0$, whose mean curvature and its derivative for outward direction are positive in spacelike hypersurface with non-negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Tetsuya Shiromizu , Yoshimune Tomikawa , Keisuke Izumi , Hirotaka Yoshino

We construct triply periodic zero mean curvature surfaces of mixed type in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space, with the same topology as the triply periodic minimal surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space, called Schwarz rPD surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Shoichi Fujimori

In this note, we prove the existence of one particular class of starshaped compact hypersurfaces, by deriving global curvature estimates for such hypersurfaces; this generalizes the main result in [Hypersurfaces of prescribed mixed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Bin Wang

The total mean curvature functional for submanifolds into the Riemannian product space $\mathbb{S}^n\times\mathbb{R}$ is considered and its first variational formula is presented. Later on, two second order differential operators are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Alma L. Albujer , Sylvia F. da Silva , Fábio R. dos Santos

We consider relative normalizations of ruled surfaces with non-vanishing Gaussian curvature $K$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R} ^{3}$, which are characterized by the support functions $^{\left( \alpha \right) }q=\left \vert K\right \vert…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Georg Stamou , Stylianos Stamatakis , Ioannis Delivos

A spacelike surface in four-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime through the lightcone has a meaningful lightlike normal vector field $\eta$. Several sufficient assumptions on such a surface with non-degenerate $\eta$-second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Francisco J. Rodriguez , Alfonso Romero

We construct and investigate smooth orientable surfaces in su(N) algebras. The structural equations of surfaces associated with Grassmannian sigma models on Minkowski space are studied using moving frames adapted to the surfaces. The first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. M. Grundland , L. Snobl

We derive intrinsic curvature and radius estimates for compact disks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with nonzero constant mean curvature and apply these estimates to study the global geometry of complete surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-27 William H. Meeks , Giuseppe Tinaglia

In this study, we investigate the existence theorems for timelike ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space. We obtain a general system and give the existence theorems for a timelike ruled surface according to Gaussian curvature, distribution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Mehmet Önder

We follow the method of ABP estimate in \cite{brendle2021} and apply it to spacelike submanifolds in $\mathbb R^{n,1}$. We then obtain Michael-Simon type inequalities. Surprisingly, our investigation leads to a Sobolev inequality without a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Liang Xu

We use a Simons type equation in order to characterize complete non-minimal pmc surfaces with non-negative Gaussian curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-17 Dorel Fetcu , Harold Rosenberg

In this paper, we characterize round spheres in the Euclidean space under some suitable conditions on the r-mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Wagner Oliveira Costa-Filho