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Wintgen ideal submanifolds in space forms are those ones attaining equality pointwise in the so-called DDVV inequality which relates the scalar curvature, the mean curvature and the scalar normal curvature. Using the framework of Moebius…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Tongzhu Li , Xiang Ma , Changping Wang , Zhenxiao Xie

In this paper, we introduce and study the concept of \textit{Clairaut Riemannian warped product submersions} between Riemannian warped product manifolds. By generalizing the notion of Clairaut Riemannian submersions to the setting of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Arkadeepta Roy , Kiran Meena , Hemangi Madhusudan Shah

We study the problem of isometrically embedding a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean three-space. It is shown that if Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two smooth curves tangent at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Tsung-Yin Lin

In this paper we consider Riemannian manifolds of dimension at least $3$, with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean Volume Growth. For every open bounded subset with smooth boundary we establish the validity of an optimal Minkowski…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Luca Benatti , Mattia Fogagnolo , Lorenzo Mazzieri

Consider a strictly convex bounded regular domain $C$ of $\R^3$. For any arbitrary finite topological type we find a compact Riemann surface $\mathcal{M}$, an open domain $M\subset \mathcal{M}$ with the fixed topological type, and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-19 Antonio Alarcon

This paper is devoted to the study of the global properties of harmonically immersed Riemann surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3.$ We focus on the geometry of complete harmonic immersions with quasiconformal Gauss map, and in particular, of those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-04 Antonio Alarcon , Francisco J. Lopez

We review recent work on the local geometry and optimal regularity of Lorentzian manifolds with bounded curvature. Our main results provide an estimate of the injectivity radius of an observer, and a local canonical foliations by CMC…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-20 Philippe G. LeFloch

We show that the intrinsic diameter of mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is uniformly bounded as one approaches the first singular time $T$. This confirms the bounded diameter conjecture of Haslhofer. In addition, we establish several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Yiqi Huang , Wenshuai Jiang

We give a curvature dependent lower bound for the filling radius of all closed Riemannian manifolds as well as an upper one for manifolds which are the total space of a Riemannian submersion. The latter applies also to the case of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Manuel Cuerno , Luis Guijarro

In this paper we investigate the mean curvature flow (MCF) of a regular leaf of a closed generalized isoparametric foliation as initial datum, generalizing previous results of Radeschi and first author. We show that, under bounded curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Marcos M. Alexandrino , Leonardo F. Cavenaghi , Icaro Gonçalves

We construct a mean curvature flow with surgery for submanifolds of arbitrary codimension. The theory applies to closed submanifolds satisfying a natural quadratic pinching condition, which serves as the high-codimension analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

We consider a natural Riemannian metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of all embeddings from a manifold into a Riemannian manifold, and derive its geodesic equation in the case $\Emb(\Bbb R,\Bbb R)$ which turns out to be Burgers'…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter W. Michor , Tudor Ratiu

We show that the evolution of isoparametric hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds by the mean curvature flow is given by a reparametrization of the parallel family in short time, as long as the uniqueness of the mean curvature flow holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Felippe Guimarães , João Batista Marques dos Santos , João Paulo dos Santos

Let $M$ be a compact connected oriented $n-1$ dimensional manifold without boundary. In this work, shape space is the orbifold of unparametrized immersions from $M$ to $\mathbb R^n$. The results of \cite{Michor118}, where mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-19 Martin Bauer , Philipp Harms , Peter W. Michor

We study curvature functionals for immersed 2-spheres in non-compact, three-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M,h)$ without boundary. First, under the assumption that $(M,h)$ is the euclidean 3-space endowed with a semi-perturbed metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Andrea Mondino , Johannes Schygulla

A submanifold in space forms is isoparametric if the normal bundle is flat and principal curvatures along any parallel normal fields are constant. We study the mean curvature flow with initial data an isoparametric submanifold in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xiaobo Liu , Chuu-Lian Terng

We obtain new sharp isoperimetric inequalities on a Riemannian manifold equipped with a probability measure, whose generalized Ricci curvature is bounded from below (possibly negatively), and generalized dimension and diameter of the convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Emanuel Milman

We derive intrinsic curvature and radius estimates for compact disks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with nonzero constant mean curvature and apply these estimates to study the global geometry of complete surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-27 William H. Meeks , Giuseppe Tinaglia

Using quadratic forms, we stablish a criteria to relate the curvature of a Riemannian manifold and partial hyperbolicity of its geodesic flow. We show some examples which satisfy the criteria and another which does not satisfy it but still…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Fernando Carneiro , Enrique Pujals