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We study a class of semilinear free boundary problems in which admissible functions $u$ have a topological constraint, or spanning condition, on their 1-level set. This constraint forces $\{u=1\}$, which is the free boundary, to behave like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Michael Novack , Daniel Restrepo , Anna Skorobogatova

Motivated by the study of the non-parametric area $\mathcal A$ of the graph of the vortex map $u$ (a two-codimensional singular surface in $\mathbb R^4$) over the disc $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$ of radius $l$, we perform a careful…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Giovanni Bellettini , Alaa Elshorbagy , Riccardo Scala

We apply Garnier's method to solve the Plateau problem for maximal surfaces in Minkowski 3-space. Our study relies on the improved version we gave of R. Garnier's resolution of the Plateau problem for polygonal boundary curves in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-17 Laura Desideri

We solve the Levi-flat Plateau problem in the following case. Let $M \subset {\mathbb C}^{n+1}$, $n \geq 2$, be a connected compact real-analytic codimension-two submanifold with only nondegenerate CR singularities. Suppose $M$ is a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Jiri Lebl , Alan Noell , Sivaguru Ravisankar

We study the structure of the branch set of solutions to Plateau's problem in metric spaces satisfying a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. In our first result, we give examples of spaces with isoperimetric constant arbitrarily close to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Paul Creutz , Matthew Romney

In this paper we will compare the Plateau's problem with \v{C}ech and singular homological boundary conditions, we also compare these with the size minimizing problem for integral currents with a given boundary. Finally we get the agreement…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Yangqin Fang , Vincent Feuvrier , Chunyan Liu

We study the problem of finding a minimal graph with prescribed boundary data in arbitrary dimension and codimension. Existence, uniqueness, stability and regularity are treated. We first present the well-known results for codimension one:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luca M. Martinazzi

In this paper, we study the functional introduced by the author in collaboration with Bonnivard, Bretin, and Lemenant, which is designed to approximate Plateau's problem. We establish the existence of a minimizer and prove its H{\"o}lder…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Eve Machefert

This work focuses on a phase field approximation of Plateau's problem. Inspired by Reifenberg's point of view, we introduce a model that combines the Ambrosio-Torterelli energy with a geodesic distance term, which can be considered as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Matthieu Bonnivard , Elie Bretin , Antoine Lemenant , Eve Machefert

We define a geometric flow that is designed to change surfaces of cylindrical type spanning two disjoint boundary curves into solutions of the Douglas-Plateau problem of finding minimal surfaces with given boundary curves. We prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Melanie Rupflin

We prove the existence of solutions to the asymptotic Plateau problem for hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds $N$. More precisely, given a suitable subset $L$ of the asymptotic boundary of $N$ and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Ilkka Holopainen , Jaime B. Ripoll

Counting integer points in large convex bodies with smooth boundaries containing isolated flat points is oftentimes an intermediate case between balls (or convex bodies with smooth boundaries having everywhere positive curvature) and cubes…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Luca Brandolini , Giancarlo Travaglini

Let $\Gamma$ be a compact codimension-two submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^n$, and let $L$ be a nontrivial real line bundle over $X = \mathbb{R}^n \setminus \Gamma$. We study the Allen--Cahn functional, \[E_\varepsilon(u) = \int_X \varepsilon…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Marco A. M. Guaraco , Stephen Lynch

Modern geometric measure theory, developed largely to solve the Plateau problem, has generated a great deal of technical machinery which is unfortunately regarded as inaccessible by outsiders. Some of its tools (e.g., flat norm distance and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Sharif Ibrahim

In this paper, we consider a Generalized Bernstein Theorem for a type of generalized minimal surfaces, namely minimal Plateau surfaces. We show that if an orientable minimal Plateau surface is stable and has quadratic area growth in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Gaoming Wang

We prove some non-existence results for the asymptotic Plateau problem of minimal and area minimizing surfaces in the homogeneous space ${\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}_2(\mathbb{R})}$ with isometry group of dimension 4, in terms of their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Jesús Castro-Infantes

Let $X$ be a compact connected strongly pseudoconvex $CR$ manifold of real dimension $2n-1$ in $\mathbb{C}^{N}$. For $n\ge 3$, Yau solved the complex Plateau problem of hypersurface type by checking a bunch of Kohn-Rossi cohomology groups…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Rong Du

Motivated by a problem originating in the study of defect structures in nematic liquid crystals, we describe and study a numerical algorithm for the resolution of a Plateau-like problem. The energy contains the area of a two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Dominik Stantejsky

The isomorphism problem means to decide if two given finite-dimensional simple algebras over the same centre are isomorphic and, if so, to construct an isomorphism between them. A solution to this problem has applications in computational…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Timo Hanke

The complexity of deciding whether a clustered graph admits a clustered planar drawing is a long-standing open problem in the graph drawing research area. Several research efforts focus on a restricted version of this problem where the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Pier Francesco Cortese , Maurizio Patrignani