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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 provide a characterization of the Clifford Torus in S3 via moving frames and contact structure equations. More precisely, we prove that minimal surfaces in S3 with constant contact angle must be the Clifford Torus. Some applications of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes Jose A. Verderesi

In this paper, we study $n$-dimensional complete minimal hypersurfaces in a unit sphere. We prove that an $n$-dimensional complete minimal hypersurface with constant scalar curvature in a unit sphere with $f_3$ constant is isometric to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Qing-Ming Cheng , Guoxin Wei , Takuya Yamashiro

Lawson-Osserman constructed three types of non-parametric minimal cones of high codimensions based on Hopf maps between spheres, which correspond to Lipschitz but non-differentiable solutions to the minimal surface equations, thereby making…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Xiaowei Xu , Ling Yang , Yongsheng Zhang

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

A conformal map from a Riemann surface to a Euclidean space of dimension greater than or equal to three is explained by using the Clifford algebra, in a similar fashion to quaternionic holomorphic geometry of surfaces in the Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Katsuhiro Moriya

Inspired by the work of Heller [12], we show that there exists a DPW potential for the Lawson surface $\xi_{k-1, l-1}$ from which it is possible to reconstruct the minimal immersion $f: \xi_{k-1, l-1} \to \mathbb{S}^3$ via the DPW method.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Benedetto Manca

A classical result by Marston Morse asserts that on some ellipsoids of ${\mathbb R}^3$ there exists exactly 3 closed and simple geodesics. The goal of this presentation is to prove that this rigidity result does not extend to higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Tristan Rivière

We construct new examples of immersed minimal surfaces with catenoid ends and finite total curvature, of both genus zero and higher genus. In the genus zero case, we classify all such surfaces with at most $2n+1$ ends, and with symmetry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-29 Wayne Rossman

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

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem about spherical helicoidal (in particular, rotational) surfaces with prescribed mean or Gaussian curvature in terms of a continuous function depending on the distance to its axis. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

The Willmore Problem seeks closed surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3\subset\mathbb{R}^4$ of a given topological type minimizing the squared-mean-curvature energy $W = \int |H_{\mathbb{R}^4}|^2 = area + \int |H_{\mathbb{S}^3}|^2$. The longstanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Rob Kusner , Ying Lü , Peng Wang

The symmetries of surfaces which can be embedded into the symmetries of the 3-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ are easier to feel by human's intuition. We give the maximum order of finite group actions on $(\mathbb{R}^3, \Sigma)$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Chao Wang , Shicheng Wang , Yimu Zhang , Bruno Zimmermann

In recent work with Kusner, we developed a method, based on the equivariant optimization of Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues, for producing minimal surfaces of prescribed topology in low-dimensional balls and spheres. We used the method to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Mikhail Karpukhin , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

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

We establish a general min-max type theorem that produces minimal surfaces with prescribed genus in 3-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. An important intermediate step is to show that, in a generic metric with positive Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

In this note, we generalize a characterization of the Clifford torus due to Ros. Let $f:M\rightarrow S^{n+1}$ be an embedded closed minimal hypersurface. Assume there are $(n+2)$ great hyperspheres of $S^{n+1}$ perpendicular to each other,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Changping Wang , Peng Wang

We prove an enumerative min-max theorem that relates the number of genus g minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature to topological properties of the set of embedded surfaces of genus $\leq g$, possibly with finitely many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

If a finite group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of the 3-dimensional torus leaves invariant an oriented, closed, embedded surface of genus g>1 and preserves the orientation of the surface, then its order is bounded from above by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Chao Wang , Bruno Zimmermann

In this paper we numerically construct CMC deformations of the Lawson minimal surfaces $\xi_{g,1}$ using a spectral curve and a DPW approach to CMC surfaces in spaceforms.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Sebastian Heller , Nicholas Schmitt