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In earlier work of NK new closed embedded smooth minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere $\mathbb{S}^3(1)$ were constructed, each resembling two parallel copies of the equatorial two-sphere $\mathbb{S}^2_{eq}$ joined by small catenoidal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Peter McGrath

In this note, we generalize a characterization of the Clifford torus due to Ros. Let $f:M\rightarrow S^{n+1}$ be an embedded closed minimal hypersurface. Assume there are $(n+2)$ great hyperspheres of $S^{n+1}$ perpendicular to each other,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Changping Wang , Peng Wang

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

We describe some topological structure in the set of all surfaces with finitely many singularities in the 3-sphere. As an application, we prove that every Riemannian 3-sphere of positive Ricci curvature contains, for every g, a genus g…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu

We prove that closed surfaces of all topological types, except for the non-orientable odd-genus ones, can be minimally embedded in the Riemannian product of a sphere and a circle of arbitrary radius. We illustrate it by obtaining some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-20 José M. Manzano , Julia Plehnert , Francisco Torralbo

Special class of surfaces in five-dimensional sphere in $C^3$ is considered. Immersion equations for minimal tori of that class are shown to be reducible to the equation $u_{z\bar z}=e^u-e^{-2u}$ which is integrable by means of inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

The Willmore Problem seeks closed surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3\subset\mathbb{R}^4$ of a given topological type minimizing the squared-mean-curvature energy $W = \int |H_{\mathbb{R}^4}|^2 = area + \int |H_{\mathbb{S}^3}|^2$. The longstanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Rob Kusner , Ying Lü , Peng Wang

We provide a characterization of the Clifford Torus in S3 via moving frames and contact structure equations. More precisely, we prove that minimal surfaces in S3 with constant contact angle must be the Clifford Torus. Some applications of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes Jose A. Verderesi

A new approach for constructing minimal submanifolds of codimension 1 in the round spheres is proposed. In the case of $\mathbb{S}^3$ two immersions of the Clifford torus and all Lawson $\tau_{n, m}$ surfaces are described in terms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Aleksei Kislitsyn

We construct closed embedded minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere, resembling two parallel copies of the equatorial two-sphere, joined by small catenoidal bridges symmetrically arranged either along two parallel circles of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Nikolaos Kapouleas

Using a new estimate for the Peng-Terng invariant and the multiple-parameter method, we verify a rigidity theorem on the stronger version of Chern Conjecture for minimal hypersurfaces in spheres. More precisely, we prove that if $M$ is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu , Zhiyuan Xu

This is the second of a series of two papers where we construct embedded Willmore tori with small area constraint in Riemannian three-manifolds. In both papers the construction relies on a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, the difficulty being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Norihisa Ikoma , Andrea Malchiodi , Andrea Mondino

We present a general construction of embedded minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^n$ and one-phase free boundaries joined by a smooth interpolation by capillary hypersurfaces. This framework recovers all known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis

We introduce a class of minimal submanfolds $M^n$, $n\geq 3$, in spheres $\mathbb{S}^{n+2}$ that are ruled by totally geodesic spheres of dimension $n-2$. If simply-connected, such a submanifold admits a one-parameter associated family of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Marcos Dajczer , Theodoros Vlachos

Twenty years ago, N. Kapouleas introduced a singular perturbation construction known as "doubling", which produces sequences of high-genus minimal surfaces converging to a given minimal surface with multiplicity two. Doubling constructions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Daniel Stern

A Euclidean minimal torus with planar ends gives rise to an immersed Willmore torus in the conformal 3--sphere $S^3=\R^3\cup \{\infty\}$. The class of Willmore tori obtained this way is given a spectral theoretic characterization as the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Christoph Bohle , Iskander A. Taimanov

We construct minimal surfaces in hyperbolic and anti-de Sitter 3-space with the topology of a $n$-punctured sphere by loop group factorization methods. The end behavior of the surfaces is based on the asymptotics of Delaunay-type surfaces,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Alexander I. Bobenko , Sebastian Heller , Nicholas Schmitt

We give a local analytic characterization that a minimal surface in the 3-sphere $\, \ES^3 \subset \R^4$ defined by an irreducible cubic polynomial is one of the Lawson's minimal tori. This provides an alternative proof of the result by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Joe S. Wang

Bryant \cite{Bryant84} classified all Willmore spheres in $3$-space to be given by minimal surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ with embedded planar ends. This note provides new explicit formulas for genus 0 minimal surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Sebastian Heller

Given a tiling $\mathcal{T}$ of the plane by straight edge polygons, which is invariant by two independent translations, we construct a family of embedded triply periodic minimal surfaces which desingularizes $\mathcal{T}\times\mathbb{R}$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-15 Rami Younes