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This paper is the third in a series where we describe the space of all embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a fixed (but arbitrary) closed 3-manifold. In [CM3]-[CM5] we describe the case where the surfaces are topologically disks on…

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

Let $X$ be a complex algebraic K3 surface of degree $2d$ and with Picard number $\rho$. Assume that $X$ admits two commuting involutions: one holomorphic and one anti-holomorphic. In that case, $\rho \geq 1$ when $d=1$ and $\rho \geq 2$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Dino Festi , Wim Nijgh , Daniel Platt

The isometry group of the classical Lawson embedded minimal surface $\xi_{2,1}\subset \mathbb{S}^3$ of genus 2 is isomorphic to the product $S_3\times D_4$ of the permutation group of three elements and the dihedral group of order 8…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-16 José M. Espinar , Joaquín Pérez

We describe decomposition formulas for rotations of $R^3$ and $R^4$ that have special properties with respect to stereographic projection. We use the lower dimensional decomposition to analyze stereographic projections of great circles in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John McCuan , Lafe Spietz

We construct one-parameter deformations of the Euclidean sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ inside $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that admit a Zoll family of codimension one embedded minimal spheres, in all dimensions $n\geq 3$. The method of construction is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lucas Ambrozio , Diego Guajardo

In this paper we prove several quantitative rigidity results for conformal immersions of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with bounded total curvature. We show that (branched) conformal immersions which are close in energy to either a round…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Tobias Lamm , Huy The Nguyen

We prove that a connected properly immersed minimal surface in Euclidean 3-space with infinite symmetry group whose intersection with a ball of radius R is less than 2\piR^2 is a plane, a catenoid or a Scherk singly-periodic minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William H. Meeks , Michael Wolf

We study Willmore surfaces of constant Moebius curvature $K$ in $S^4$. It is proved that such a surface in $S^3$ must be part of a minimal surface in $R^3$ or the Clifford torus. Another result in this paper is that an isotropic surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-12 Xiang Ma , Changping Wang

Following Matveev, a k-normal surface in a triangulated 3-manifold is a generalization of both normal and (octagonal) almost normal surfaces. Using spines, complexity, and Turaev-Viro invariants of 3-manifolds, we prove the following…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-13 Evgeny Fominykh , Bruno Martelli

A class of spiral minimal surfaces in E^3 is constructed using a symmetry reduction. The new surfaces are invariant with respect to the composition of rotation and dilatation. The solutions are obtained in closed form %through the Legendre…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-15 A. V. Kiselev , V. I. Varlamov

A result due to Burago and Zalgaller (1960, 1995) states that every orientable polyhedral surface, one that is obtained by gluing Euclidean polygons, has an isometric piecewise linear (PL) embedding into Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^3$. A…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Francis Lazarus , Florent Tallerie

We study knots in $\mathbb{S}^3$ obtained by the intersection of a minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^4$ with a small 3-sphere centered at a branch point. We construct examples of new minimal knots. In particular we show the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Soret , Marina Ville

We show that in any triangulated 3-manifold, every index n topologically minimal surface can be transformed to a surface which has local indices (as computed in each tetrahedron) that sum to at most n. This generalizes classical theorems of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-18 David Bachman

Given a Riemannian $\mathbb{RP}^3$ with a bumpy metric or a metric of positive Ricci curvature, we show that there either exist four distinct minimal real projective planes, or exist one minimal real projective plane together with two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Xingzhe Li , Tongrui Wang , Xuan Yao

We extend the theory of complete minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ of finite total curvature to the wider class of elliptic special Weingarten surfaces of finite total curvature; in particular, we extend the seminal works of L. Jorge and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-23 José M. Espinar , Héber Mesa

We investigate which orbits of an $n$-dimensional torus action on a $2n$-dimensional toric K\"ahler manifold $M$ are minimal. In other words, we study minimal submanifolds appearing as the fibres of the moment map on a toric K\"ahler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Gonçalo Oliveira , Rosa Sena-Dias

We produce a family of bodies in $\mathbb R^3$ parameterized by $\varepsilon > 0$, each bounded by a smooth topological sphere with principal curvatures in $[-1, 1]$, and having volume arbitrarily close to $ 16 - 4\sqrt 3 + \left(10 \sqrt 3…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Matthew Bolan

Using an analogue of Myers' theorem for minimal surfaces and three dimensional topology, we prove the diameter sphere theorem for Ricci curvature in dimension three and a corresponding eigenvalue pinching theorem. This settles these two…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ying Shen , Shunhui Zhu

The Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture connects the entanglement entropy in the boundary CFT to the area of open co-dimension two minimal surfaces in the bulk. Especially in AdS(4), the latter are two-dimensional surfaces, and, thus, solutions of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-12 Georgios Pastras

In this paper we consider min-max minimal surfaces in three-manifolds and prove some rigidity results. For instance, we prove that any metric on a 3-sphere which has scalar curvature greater than or equal to 6 and is not round must have an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 F. C. Marques , A. Neves