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By extending and generalising previous work by Ros and Savo, we describe a method to show that the Morse index of every closed minimal hypersurface on certain positively curved ambient manifolds is bounded from below by a linear function of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Lucas Ambrozio , Alessandro Carlotto , Ben Sharp

In this paper, we study Vanishing Mean Oscillation vector fields on a compact manifold with boundary. Inspired by the work of Brezis and Niremberg, we construct a topological invariant - the index - for such fields, and establish the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Giacomo Canevari , Antonio Segatti , Marco Veneroni

We extend the estimate obtained in [1] for the mean curvature of a cylindrically bounded proper submanifold in a product manifold with an Euclidean space as one factor to a general product ambient space endowed with a warped product…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Luis J. Alias , Marcos Dajczer

We prove a monotonicity identity for compact surfaces with free boundaries inside the boundary of unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$ that have square integrable mean curvature. As one consequence we obtain a Li-Yau type inequality in this setting,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Alexander Volkmann

A marginally outer trapped hypersurface is a generalization of minimal hypersurfaces originated from general relativity. We show a curvature estimate for stable marginally outer trapped hypersurfaces up to the free boundary satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Xiaoxiang Chai

Given a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove that the space of embedded, which may be improper, free boundary minimal hypersurfaces with uniform area and Morse index upper bound is compact in the sense of smoothly graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qiang Guang , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

We establish the existence of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and a prescribed boundary in Euclidean space, represented as radial graphs over domains of the unit sphere. Under the assumptions that the mean curvature of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Flávio Cruz , José T. Cruz , Jocel Oliveira

We consider the smooth inverse mean curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces with boundary embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1},$ which are perpendicular to the unit sphere from the inside. We prove that the flow hypersurfaces converge to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

We study compactly free boundary minimal submanifolds in spherical caps $\Br$ and their geometric spectral properties. Following the foundational work of Fraser-Schoen \cite{FS2012}, Lima-Menezes \cite{LM23} established the connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Mateus Spezia

This survey article is about discrete constant mean curvature surfaces defined by an approach related to integrable systems techniques. We introduce the notion of discrete constant mean curvature surfaces by first introducing properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Wayne Rossman

We study the constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space whose asymptotic boundaries are closed codimension-1 submanifolds in sphere at infinity. We consider CMC hypersurfaces as generalizations of minimal hypersurfaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baris Coskunuzer

In contrast with the 3-dimensional case (cf. \cite{RaMo}), where rotationally symmetric totally geodesic free boundary minimal surfaces have Morse index one; we prove in this work that the Morse index of a free boundary rotationally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Ezequiel Barbosa , José Maria Espinar

For an immersed minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we show that there exists a lower bound on its Morse index that depends on the genus and number of ends, counting multiplicity. This improves, in several ways, an estimate we previously…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Otis Chodosh , Davi Maximo

On any surface we give an example of a metric that contains simple closed geodesics with arbitrary high Morse index. Similarly, on any 3-manifold we give an example of a metric that contains embedded minimal tori with arbitrary high Morse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Nancy Hingston

We construct free boundary minimal surfaces (FBMS) embedded in the unit ball in the Euclidean three-space which are compact, lie arbitrarily close to the boundary unit sphere, are of genus zero, and their boundary has an arbitrarily large…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Jiahua Zou

We obtain some estimates on the area of the boundary and on the volume of a certain free boundary hypersurface $\Sigma$ with nonpositive Yamabe invariant in a Riemannian $n$-manifold with bounds for the scalar curvature and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-18 A. Barros , C. Tiarlos Cruz

In this note we consider asymptotically flat manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature and an inner boundary which is an outermost minimal surface. We show that there exists an upper bound on the mean curvature of a constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-21 Jan Metzger

We calculate the index and nullity of the three orientable focal manifolds of isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres with three distinct principal curvatures. It turns out that the index is equal to the dimension of the ambient Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Niklas Rauchenberger , Uwe Semmelmann

We give a complete classification of the immersed constant mean curvature spheres in a three-sphere with an arbitrary homogenous metric, by proving that for each $H\in\mathbb{R}$, there exists a constant mean curvature $H$-sphere in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-15 William H. Meeks , Pablo Mira , Joaquin Perez , Antonio Ros

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Alessandro Carlotto