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We give an elementary proof of the fact that any orientable 3-manifold admits a framing (i.e. is parallelizable) and any non-orientable 3-manifold admits a projective framing. The proof uses only basic facts about immersions of surfaces in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tahl Nowik

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

In this paper, we improve a result by Chodosh and Ketover. We prove that, in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold $M$ that contains no closed minimal surfaces, fixing $q\in M$ and a $2$-plane $V$ in $T_qM$ there is a properly embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Laurent Mazet , Harold Rosenberg

Consider a domain D in R^3 which is convex (possibly all R^3) or which is smooth and bounded. Given any open surface M, we prove that there exists a complete, proper minimal immersion f : M --> D. Moreover, if D is smooth and bounded, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-26 Leonor Ferrer , Francisco Martin , William H. Meeks

Motivated by classical theorems on minimal surface theory in compact hyperbolic three-manifolds, we investigate the questions of existence and deformations for least area minimal surfaces in complete noncompact hyperbolic three-manifold of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Zheng Huang , Biao Wang

It is shown that every simple polygon in general position with $n$ walls can be illuminated from a single point light source $s$ after at most $\lfloor (n-2)/4\rfloor$ diffuse reflections, and this bound is the best possible. A point $s$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Eli Fox-Epstein , Csaba Tóth , Andrew Winslow

We propose a simple proof of the vertical half-space theorem for Heisenberg space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Tristan Alex

We present a simple proof of the surface classification theorem using normal curves. This proof is analogous to Kneser's and Milnor's proof of the existence and uniqueness of the prime decomposition of 3-manifolds. In particular, we do not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Fethi Ayaz , Marc Kegel , Klaus Mohnke

In this paper, scattering of incident plane waves from rough surfaces have been modeled in a fractional space. It is shown how wave scattering from a rough surface, could be a simple reflection problem in a fractional space. In the integer…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-31 H. Safdari , M. Vahabi , G. R. Jafari

We prove an improvement of flatness result for nonlocal minimal surfaces which is independent of the fractional parameter $s$ when $s\rightarrow 1^-$. As a consequence, we obtain that all the nonlocal minimal cones are flat and that all the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-07 Luis Caffarelli , Enrico Valdinoci

We propose a reflection principle for holomorphic objects in ${\Bbb C}^n$. Our construction generalizes the classical principle of H.Lewy, S.Pinchuk and S.Webster.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Alexander Sukhov

Minimal surfaces are ubiquitous in nature. Here they are considered as geometric objects that bear a deformation content. By refining the resolution of the surface deformation gradient afforded by the polar decomposition theorem, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-13 André M. Sonnet , Epifanio G. Virga

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

We study immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which are critical points of the Willmore functional under boundary constraints. The two cases considered are when the surface meets a plane orthogonally along the boundary, and when the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ernst Kuwert , Tobias Lamm

On a smooth asymptotically flat Riemannian manifold with non-compact boundary, we prove a positive mass theorem for metrics which are only continuous across a compact hypersurface. As an application, we obtain a positive mass theorem on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

The authors study theoretically reflection on the surface of a metamaterial with a hyperbolic dispersion. It is found that reflection is strongly dependent on how the surface is terminated with respect to the asymptote of the hyperbolic…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-10 Xin Li , Zixian Liang , Xiaohan Liu , Xunya Jiang , Jian Zi

In this paper, we show that any biharmonic simple rotational surface in the four-dimensional Euclidean space is minimal. The proof is based on reducing the biharmonic equation to a system of ordinary differential equations for the profile…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Shun Maeta

It is a well known phenomenon that many classical minimal surfaces in Euclidean space also exist with higher dihedral symmetry. More precisely, these surfaces are solutions to free boundary problems in a wedge bounded by two vertical planes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Ramazan Yol

Estimating and modelling the appearance of an object under outdoor illumination conditions is a complex process. Although there have been several studies on illumination estimation and relighting, very few of them focus on estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Farhan Rahman Wasee , Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

We extend the minimal model theorem to the 3-dimensional schemes which are projective and have semistable reduction over the spectrum of a Dedekind ring.

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Yujiro Kawamata