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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Andrew Clarke

Let $M$ be an open Riemann surface. It was proved by Alarc\'on and Forstneri\v{c} (arXiv:1408.5315) that every conformal minimal immersion $M\to\mathbb R^3$ is isotopic to the real part of a holomorphic null curve $M\to\mathbb C^3$. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Franc Forstneric , Finnur Larusson

We explore a connection between the Finslerian area functional and well-investigated Cartan functionals to prove new Bernstein theorems, uniqueness and removability results for Finsler-minimal graphs, as well as enclosure theorems and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Patrick Overath , Heiko von der Mosel

In this paper we show that Mergelyan's theorem holds for maps from open Riemann surfaces to Oka manifolds. This is used to prove the analogue of Arakelian's theorem on uniform approximation of holomorphic maps from closed subsets of the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Franc Forstneric

We show that min-max minimal hypersurfaces can be localized. As a consequence, we obtain the sharp generalization to complete manifolds of the famous Almgren-Pitts min-max theorem in closed manifolds. We use this result to prove the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Douglas Stryker

We consider minimal maps $f:M\to N$ between Riemannian manifolds $(M,\mathrm{g}_M)$ and $(N,\mathrm{g}_N)$, where $M$ is compact and where the sectional curvatures satisfy $\sec_N\le \sigma\le \sec_M$ for some $\sigma>0$. Under certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Felix Lubbe

In Mergelyan type approximation we uniformly approximate functions on compact sets K by polynomials or rational functions or holomorphic functions on varying open sets containing K. In the present paper we consider analogous approximation,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Sotiris Armeniakos , Giorgos Kotsovolis , Vassili Nestoridis

Following earlier work of Loftin-McIntosh, we study minimal Lagrangian immersions of the universal cover of a closed surface (of genus at least 2) into CH2, with prescribed data of a conformal structure plus a holomorphic cubic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-20 Zheng Huang , John Loftin , Marcello Lucia

For an oriented isometric immersion $f:M\to S^n$ the spherical Gauss map is the Legendrian immersion of its unit normal bundle $UM^\perp$ into the unit sphere subbundle of $TS^n$, and the geodesic Gauss map $\gamma$ projects this into the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Chris Draper , Ian McIntosh

Minimal surfaces are ubiquitous in nature. Here they are considered as geometric objects that bear a deformation content. By refining the resolution of the surface deformation gradient afforded by the polar decomposition theorem, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-13 André M. Sonnet , Epifanio G. Virga

We consider the problem of minimizing the Willmore energy in the class of conformal immersions of a given closed, genus p Riemann surface into R^n for n=3,4. We prove existence of a smooth minimizer, provided that the infimum is below a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Ernst Kuwert , Reiner Schätzle

A classical result by Marston Morse asserts that on some ellipsoids of ${\mathbb R}^3$ there exists exactly 3 closed and simple geodesics. The goal of this presentation is to prove that this rigidity result does not extend to higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Tristan Rivière

In any 5 dimensional closed Sasakian manifold we prove that any minmax operation on the area among Legendrian surfaces is achieved by a continuous conformal Legendrian map from a closed riemann surface $S$ into $N^5$ equipped with an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Tristan Rivière

This paper is the fourth in a series where we describe the space of all embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a fixed (but arbitrary) closed 3-manifold. The key is to understand the structure of an embedded minimal disk in a ball in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

Near the end of his life, Bernhard Riemann made the marvelous discovery of a 1-parameter family $R_{\lambda}$, $\lambda\in (0,\infty)$, of periodic properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with the property that every horizontal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-20 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez

Given two Riemann surfaces with boundary and a homotopy class of topological embeddings between them, there is a conformal embedding in the homotopy class if and only if the extremal length of every simple multi-curve is decreased under the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jeremy Kahn , Kevin M. Pilgrim , Dylan P. Thurston

We extend the techniques introduced in \cite{DoMaB1} for contractible Riemann surfaces to construct minimal Lagrangian immersions from arbitrary Riemann surfaces into $\mathbb{C}P^2$ via the loop group method. Based on the potentials of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Hui Ma

We prove that, given a $C^2$ Riemannian metric $g$ on the $2$-dimensional disk $D_2$, any short $C^1$ immersion of $(D_2,g)$ into $\mathbb R^3$ can be uniformly approximated with $C^{1,\alpha}$ isometric immersions for any $\alpha <…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Camillo De Lellis , Dominik Inauen , László Székelyhidi

It is proved that any smooth manifold $\mathcal M$ of dimension $m$ admits a smooth polynomially convex embedding into $\mathbb C^n$ when $n\geq \lfloor 5m/4\rfloor$. Further, such embeddings are dense in the space of smooth maps from…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Purvi Gupta , Rasul Shafikov

We generalize the following result of White: Suppose $N$ is a compact, strictly convex domain in $\RR^3$ with smooth boundary. Let $\Sigma$ be a compact 2-manifold with boundary. Then a generic smooth curve $\Gamma\cong \partial\Sigma$ in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-18 David Hoffman , Brian White