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We consider scalar quantum fields with exponential interaction on Euclidean hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^2$ in two dimensions. Using decoupling inequalities for Neumann boundary conditions on a tessellation of $\mathbb{H}^2$, we are able to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hanno Gottschalk , Horst Thaler

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

We consider the Pohlmeyer-type reduced theory found by explicitly solving the Virasoro constraints in the formulation of AdS_5xS^5 superstring in terms of supercoset currents. The resulting set of classically equivalent, integrable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-30 R. Roiban , A. A. Tseytlin

The family of Willmore immersions from a Riemann surface into $S^{n+2}$ can be divided naturally into the subfamily of Willmore surfaces conformally equivalent to a minimal surface in $\R^{n+2}$ and those which are not conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Peng Wang

In this paper we continue to study the connection among the area minimizing problem, certain area functional and the Dirichlet problem of minimal surface equations in a class of conformal cones with a similar motivation from \cite{GZ20}.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Qiang Gao , Hengyu Zhou

This is the second of a series of two papers where we construct embedded Willmore tori with small area constraint in Riemannian three-manifolds. In both papers the construction relies on a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, the difficulty being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Norihisa Ikoma , Andrea Malchiodi , Andrea Mondino

In this paper we study a constrained minimization problem for the Willmore functional. For prescribed surface area we consider smooth embeddings of the sphere into the unit ball. We evaluate the dependence of the the minimal Willmore energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Stefan Müller , Matthias Röger

We get a continuous one-parameter new family of embedded minimal surfaces, of which the period problems are two-dimensional. Moreover, one proves that it has Scherk second surface and Hoffman-Wohlgemuth example as limit-members.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-20 Valerio Ramos-Batista , Plinio Simoes

We consider minimization problems of functionals given by the difference between the Willmore functional of a closed surface and its area, when the latter is multiplied by a positive constant weight $\Lambda$ and when the surfaces are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Marco Pozzetta

We identify the Variational Principle governing inifinity-Harmonic maps, that is solutions to the Infinity-Laplacian. The system was first derived in the limit of the p-Laplacian as p->inifinity in [K2] and is recently studied in [K3]. Here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Nikolaos I. Katzourakis

The difficulty in exploring potential energy surfaces, which are nonconvex, stems from the presence of many local minima, typically separated by high barriers and often disconnected in configurational space. We obtain the global minimum on…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Burke , Sophia N. Yaliraki

We establish existence and regularity results for boundary value problems arising from the first variation of the Willmore energy in the graphical setting. Our focus lies on two-dimensional surfaces with fixed clamped boundary conditions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Boris Gulyak

In this paper we present an algorithm to reduce the area of a surface spanned by a finite number of boundary curves by initiating a variational improvement in the surface. The ansatz we suggest consists of original surface plus a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Daud Ahmad , Bilal Masud

In this article we present an elementary introduction to the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces $\mathbb R^n$ for $n\ge 3$ by using only elementary calculus of functions of several variables at the level of a typical second-year…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Franc Forstneric

We prove that the Gauss curvature and the curvature of the normal connection of any minimal surface in the four dimensional Euclidean space satisfy an inequality, which generates two classes of minimal surfaces: minimal surfaces of general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-23 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We study the Ambrozio--Carlotto--Sharp (ACS) criterion on minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces $N^{n+1}\subset S^{n+2}$ with positive Ricci curvature, motivated by the Schoen--Marques--Neves conjecture on Morse index.For $g=4$ distinct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Niang Chen

It has been proposed that the areas of marginally trapped or anti-trapped surfaces (also known as leaves of holographic screens) may encode some notion of entropy. To connect this to AdS/CFT, we study the case of marginally trapped surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Brianna Grado-White , Donald Marolf

We study compact minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere which are constructed by successive reflections from a minimal $n$-gon -- so-called minimal reflection surfaces. The minimal $n$-gon solves a free boundary problem in a fundamental piece of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Alexander I. Bobenko , Sebastian Heller , Nicolas Schmitt

It was proved by Graham and Witten in 1999 that conformal invariants of submanifolds can be obtained via volume renormalization of minimal surfaces in conformally compact Einstein manifolds. The conformal invariant of a submanifold $\Sigma$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Yongbing Zhang

This paper deals with finding surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which are as close as possible to being flat and span a given contour such that the contour is a geodesic on the sought surface. We look for a surface which minimizes the total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Tom Gilat