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We prove existence of partitions of an open set $\Omega$ with a given number of phases, which minimize the sum of the fractional perimeters of all the phases, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In two dimensions we show that, if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Annalisa Cesaroni , Matteo Novaga

We prove that any complete, embedded minimal surface $M$ with finite topology in a homogeneous three-manifold $N$ has positive injectivity radius. When one relaxes the condition that $N$ be homogeneous to that of being locally homogeneous,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-19 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez

This paper presents some finiteness results for the number of boundary slopes of immersed essential surfaces of given genus g in a compact 3-manifold with torus boundary. In the case of hyperbolic 3-manifolds we obtain uniform quadratic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , J. Hyam Rubinstein , Shicheng Wang

We discover a family of closed, embedded minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional round sphere which includes new examples with low genus. The existence proof relies on an equivariant min-max procedure applied to a novel sweepout which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

We investigate boundedness results for families of holomorphic symplectic varieties up to birational equivalence. We prove the analogue of Zarhin's trick by for $K3$ surfaces by constructing big line bundles of low degree on certain moduli…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-26 François Charles

We show that an embedded minimal annulus $\Sigma^2 \subset B^3$ which intersects $\partial B^3$ orthogonally and is invariant under reflection through the coordinate planes is the critical catenoid. The proof uses nodal domain arguments and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Peter McGrath

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Alessandro Carlotto

Given a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove that the limit of a sequence of embedded, almost properly embedded free boundary minimal hypersurfaces, with uniform area and Morse index upper bound, always inherits a non-trivial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Zhichao Wang

In this paper we prove that a complete, embedded minimal surface $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with finite topology and compact boundary (possibly empty) is conformally a compact Riemann surface $\overline{M}$ with boundary punctured in a finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez

In this work, we investigate the existence of compact free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces immersed in several domains. Using an original integral identity for compact free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces that are immersed in a domain whose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Ezequiel Barbosa , Allan Freitas , Rodrigo Melo , Feliciano Vitório

We prove that, given a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ and disjoint finite sets $\varnothing\neq E\subset\Sigma$ and $\Lambda\subset\Sigma$, every map $\Lambda \to \mathbb{R}^3$ extends to a complete conformal minimal immersion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Antonio Alarcon , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Francisco J. Lopez

Built on a recent work of Almaraz, Barbosa, de Lima on positive mass theorems on asymptotically flat manifods with a noncompact boundary, we apply free boundary minimal surface techniques to prove their positive mass theorem and study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Xiaoxiang Chai

We show that a minimal surface meeting a sphere at a 90-degree angle can be reflected across the sphere. Using this reflection, we prove the uniqueness that every embedded free boundary minimal annulus in a ball is necessarily the critical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Jaigyoung Choe

We study the regularity of the "free surface" in boundary obstacle problems. We show that near a non-degenerate point the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha}$ $(n-2)$-dimensional surface in $\real^{n-1}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Athanasopoulos , L. A. Caffarelli , S. Salsa

We consider the relationship of the geometry of compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary to the first nonzero eigenvalue sigma_1 of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map (Steklov eigenvalue). For surfaces Sigma with genus gamma and k boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We consider a free group extension of a subshift of finite type $\sigma:\Sigma\rightarrow\Sigma$, and consider three sets of points in $\Sigma$ to which the corresponding trajectories on the free group escape to a given point in the Gromov…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Ziyu Liu

In recent work with Kusner, we developed a method, based on the equivariant optimization of Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues, for producing minimal surfaces of prescribed topology in low-dimensional balls and spheres. We used the method to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Mikhail Karpukhin , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

We prove the existence of embedded non planar free boundary minimal disks into rotationally symmetric ellipsoids of $\mathbb{R}^3$. The construction relies on the optimization of combinations of first and second Steklov eigenvalues…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Romain Petrides

We investigate compactness phenomena involving free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds of dimension less than eight. We provide natural geometric conditions that ensure strong one-sheeted graphical subsequential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Lucas Ambrozio , Alessandro Carlotto , Ben Sharp

We study the Morse index of minimal surfaces with free boundary in a half-space. We improve previous estimates relating the Neumann index to the Dirichlet index and use this to answer a question of Ambrozio, Buzano, Carlotto, and Sharp…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Shuli Chen