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We investigate harmonic unit vector fields with totally geodesic integral curves on 3-manifolds. Under mild curvature assumptions, we classify both the vector fields and the manifolds that support them. Our results are inspired by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Georges Habib , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

In this paper, we establish a Willmore-type inequality for closed hypersurfaces in a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension $n+1$ with ${\rm Ric}\geq-ng$. It extends the classic result of Argostianiani, Fogagnolo, and Mazzieri in [1] to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Xiaoshang Jin , Jiabin Yin

In this paper we establish existence and compactness of solutions to a general fully nonlinear version of the Yamabe problem on locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds with umbilic boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-18 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen

In this article, we give multiple situations when having one or two geometrically distinct closed geodesics on a complete Riemannian cylinder $M\simeq S^1\times\mathbb{R}$ or a complete Riemannian plane $M\simeq\mathbb{R}^2$ leads to having…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Simon Allais , Tobias Soethe

In the present paper we study pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds which have 3-planar geodesic normal sections.We consider W-curves (helices) on pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds. Finally, we give neccessary and sufficient condition for a normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Kadri Arslan , Betül Bulca , Günay Öztürk

In the present paper we study geodesic mappings of special pseudo-Riemannian manifolds called $V_n(K)$-spaces. We prove that the set of solutions of the system of equations of geodesic mappings on $V_n(K)$-spaces $(K\neq0)$ forms a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Igor G. Shandra

In this article we classify totally geodesic submanifolds in arbitrary products of rank one symmetric spaces. Furthermore, we give infinitely many examples of irreducible totally geodesic submanifolds in Hermitian symmetric spaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-06 A. Rodríguez-Vázquez

We study hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry $\text{Sol}^4_0$, which is a Riemannian homogeneous space and a solvable Lie group. In particular, we give a full classification of hypersurfaces whose second fundamental form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Marie D'haene , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Joeri Van der Veken

We study the homeomorphism types of certain covers of (always orientable) surfaces, usually of infinite-type. We show that every surface with non-abelian fundamental group is covered by every noncompact surface, we identify the universal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Ian Biringer , Yassin Chandran , Tommaso Cremaschi , Jing Tao , Nicholas G. Vlamis , Mujie Wang , Brandis Whitfield

Superconformal surfaces in Euclidean space are the ones for which the ellipse of curvature at any point is a nondegenerate circle. They can be characterized as the surfaces for which a well-known pointwise inequality relating the intrinsic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Marcos Dajczer , Theodoros Vlachos

Concerning the problem of classifying complete submanifolds of Euclidean space with codimension two admitting genuine isometric deformations, until now the only known examples with the maximal possible rank four are the real Kaehler minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-22 M. Dajczer , Th. Vlachos

Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces of constant curvature have been considered recently, particularly as these products arise as spaces of oriented geodesics of 3-dimensional space-forms. This papers considers more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Nikos Georgiou , Brendan Guilfoyle

We study the umbilic points of Willmore surfaces in codimension 1 from the viewpoint of the conformal Gauss map. We first study the local behaviour of the conformal Gauss map near umbilic curves and prove that they are geodesics up to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Nicolas Marque , Dorian Martino

In this paper, we consider surfaces in 4--dimensional pseudo--Riemannian space--forms with index 2. First, we obtain some of geometrical properties of such surfaces considering their relative null space. Then, we get classifications of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Burcu Bektaş Demirci , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

The Gauss map of non-degenerate surfaces in the three-dimensional Minkowski space are viewed as dynamical fields of the two-dimensional O(2,1) Nonlinear Sigma Model. In this setting, the moduli space of solutions with rotational symmetry is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Manuel Barros , Magdalena Caballero , Miguel Ortega

Associated to an embedded surface in the $3$-sphere, we construct a diagram of fundamental groups, and prove that it is a complete invariant, wherefrom we deduce complete invariants of handlebody links, tunnels of handlebody links, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Giovanni Bellettini , Maurizio Paolini , Yi-Sheng Wang

We construct homogeneous flat pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with non-abelian fundamental group. In the compact case, all homogeneous flat pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are complete and have abelian linear holonomy group. To the contrary, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Oliver Baues , Wolfgang Globke

The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds $(M, g)$ of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be models of different types of physical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maks A. Akivis , Vladislav V. Goldberg

For fixed large genus, we construct families of complete immersed minimal surfaces in R3 with four ends and dihedral symmetries. The families exist for all large genus and at an appropriate scale degenerate to the plane.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Stephen J. Kleene , Niels Martin Moller

We study complete finite topology immersed surfaces $\Sigma$ in complete Riemannian $3$-manifolds $N$ with sectional curvature $K_N\leq -a^2\leq 0$, such that the absolute mean curvature function of $\Sigma$ is bounded from above by $a$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-01 William H. Meeks , Álvaro K. Ramos