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We consider surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature immersed in 3-dimensional manifolds, and we strengthen the compactness result of Labourie in the case where the ambient manifold is 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. This allows us to prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Graham Smith

We consider Calderon's inverse problem with partial data in dimensions $n \geq 3$. If the inaccessible part of the boundary satisfies a (conformal) flatness condition in one direction, we show that this problem reduces to the invertibility…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Carlos E. Kenig , Mikko Salo

We study sequences of oriented Riemannian manifolds with boundary and, more generally, integral current spaces and metric spaces with boundary. {\color{blue}For a metric space, we define its boundary to be the completion of the space minus…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Raquel Perales

Given a closed oriented manifold or more generally a group homology class, we introduce the spherical Plateau problem, which is a variational problem corresponding to a topological invariant called the spherical volume. In principle, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Antoine Song

We study the Plateau problem with a lower dimensional obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Intuitively, in $\mathbb{R}^3$ this corresponds to a soap film (spanning a given contour) that is pushed from below by a "vertical" 2D half-space (or some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Xavier Fernández-Real , Joaquim Serra

We study the Dirichlet problem associated to the equation for self-similar surfaces for graphs over the Euclidean plane with a disk removed. We show the existence of a solution provided the boundary conditions on the boundary circle are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Xuan Hien Nguyen

Substatic Riemannian manifolds with minimal boundary arise naturally in General Relativity as spatial slices of static spacetimes satisfying the Null Energy Condition. Moreover, they constitute a vast generalization of nonnegative Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Stefano Borghini , Mattia Fogagnolo

We show that for a very general class of curvature functions defined in the positive cone, the problem of finding a complete strictly locally convex hypersurface in $H^n+1$ satisfying $f(\kappa)=\sigma\in(0, 1)$ with a prescribed asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-21 Bo Guan , Joel Spruck , Ling Xiao

Inspired by a planar partitioning problem involving multiple improper chambers, this article investigates using classical techniques what can be said of the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of minimizers in a certain free-endpoint…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Stanley Alama , Lia Bronsard , Silas Vriend

It is well known that every quasi-Fuchsian manifold admits at least one closed incompressible minimal surface, and at most finitely many of them. In this paper, for any prescribed integer $N>0$, we construct a quasi-Fuchsian manifold which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Zheng Huang , Biao Wang

On a compact manifold with boundary, the map consisting of the scalar curvature in the interior and the mean curvature on the boundary is a local surjection at generic metrics. We prove that this result may be localized to compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Hongyi Sheng

In this paper, we study the problem of computing a homotopy from a planar curve $C$ to a point that minimizes the area swept. The existence of such a minimum homotopy is a direct result of the solution of Plateau's problem. Chambers and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Brittany Terese Fasy , Selcuk Karakoc , Carola Wenk

In this paper, we consider locally wedge-shaped manifolds, which are Riemannian manifolds that are allowed to have both boundary and certain types of edges. We define and study the properties of free boundary minimal hypersurfaces inside…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Liam Mazurowski , Tongrui Wang

We present a short and flexible improvement-of-flatness argument adapted to the setting of exterior domains, where one is naturally led to work with annuli instead of balls. As a model application in the classical setting of minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xavier Fernández-Real , Enric Florit-Simon , Joaquim Serra

Let \Sigma be a compact surface of type (g, n), n > 0, obtained by removing n disjoint disks from a closed surface of genus g. Assuming \chi(\Sigma)<0, we show that on \Sigma, the set of flat metrics which have the same Laplacian spectrum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Young-Heon Kim

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

This paper is a continuation of our paper about boundary rigidity and filling minimality of metrics close to flat ones. We show that compact regions close to a hyperbolic one are boundary distance rigid and strict minimal fillings. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Dmitri Burago , Sergei Ivanov

We study the geometry of domains in complete metric measure spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a $1$-Poincar\'e inequality. We propose a notion of \emph{domain with boundary of positive mean curvature} and prove that, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Panu Lahti , Lukas Maly , Nageswari Shanmugalingam , Gareth Speight

Let $\Sigma$ be a $k$-dimensional complete proper minimal submanifold in the Poincar\'{e} ball model $B^n$ of hyperbolic geometry. If we consider $\Sigma$ as a subset of the unit ball $B^n$ in Euclidean space, we can measure the Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Sung-Hong Min , Keomkyo Seo

In this note we use the strong maximum principle and integral estimates prove two results on minimal hypersurfaces $F:M^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with free boundary on the standard unit sphere. First we show that if $F$ is graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler