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Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 Taylor Killian , Jordan Huey , Joshua Bryson , Tadd Truscott

On a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary having positive mean curvature, a fundamental result of Shi and Tam states that, if the manifold has nonnegative scalar curvature and if the boundary is isometric to a strictly convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Siyuan Lu , Pengzi Miao

We establish the extrinsic Bonnet-Myers Theorem for compact Riemannian manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. And we show the almost rigidity for compact hypersurfaces, which have positive sectional curvature and almost maximal extrinsic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Weiying Li , Guoyi Xu

Substatic Riemannian manifolds with minimal boundary arise naturally in General Relativity as spatial slices of static spacetimes satisfying the Null Energy Condition. Moreover, they constitute a vast generalization of nonnegative Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Stefano Borghini , Mattia Fogagnolo

We prove that the space of free boundary CMC surfaces of bounded topology, bounded area and bounded boundary length is compact in the $C^k$ graphical sense away from a finite set of points. This is a CMC version of a result for minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Nicolau S. Aiex , Han Hong

Gromov and Sormani conjectured that sequences of compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and area of minimal surfaces bounded below should have subsequences which converge in the intrinsic flat sense to limit spaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Jiewon Park , Wenchuan Tian , Changliang Wang

This article deals with topological assumptions under which the minimal volume entropy of a closed manifold $M$, and more generally of a finite simplicial complex $X$, vanishes or is positive. These topological conditions are expressed in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Ivan Babenko , Stéphane Sabourau

In this work, we study the space of complete embedded rotationally symmetric self-shrinking hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. First, using comparison geometry in the context of metric geometry, we derive explicit upper bounds for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-26 John Man Shun Ma , Ali Muhammad , Niels Martin Møller

We follow the diffusive motion of colloidal particles in soap films with varying $h/d$, where $h$ is the thickness of the film and $d$ the diameter of the particles. The hydrodynamics of these films are determined by looking at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-28 V. Prasad , Eric R. Weeks

We will study the $1$-weighted Ricci curvature in view of the extrinsic geometric analysis. We derive several geometric consequences concerning stable weighted minimal hypersurfaces in weighted manifolds under a lower $1$-weighted Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Yasuaki Fujitani , Yohei Sakurai

We prove a suite of asymptotically sharp quadratic curvature pinching estimates for mean curvature flow in the sphere which generalize Simons' rigidity theorem for minimal hypersurfaces. We then obtain derivative estimates for the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen

We consider the 3D compressible isentropic Euler equations describing the motion of a liquid in an unbounded initial domain with a moving boundary and a fixed flat bottom at finite depth. The liquid is under the influence of gravity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

In this paper, we consider minimal hypersurfaces in the product space $\mathbb{H}^n \times \mathbb{R}$. We begin by studying examples of rotation hypersurfaces and hypersurfaces invariant under hyperbolic translations. We then consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Pierre Bérard , Ricardo Sa Earp

Many objects in nature and industry are wrapped in a thin sheet to enhance their chemical, mechanical, or optical properties. There are similarly a variety of methods for wrapping, from pressing a film onto a hard substrate, to using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-30 Joseph D. Paulsen

In this article we study the shape of a compact surface of constant mean curvature of Euclidean space whose boundary is contained in a round sphere. We consider the case that the boundary is prescribed or that the surface meets the sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-22 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

We examine some common features of minimal surfaces, nonzero constant mean curvature surfaces and marginally outer trapped surfaces, concerning their stability and rigidity, and consider some applications to Riemannian geometry and general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-31 Gregory J. Galloway

We study stability properties of $f$-minimal hypersurfaces isometrically immersed in weighted manifolds with non-negative Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature under volume growth conditions. Moreover, exploiting a weighted version of a finiteness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Debora Impera , Michele Rimoldi

In this paper, we consider complete non-catenoidal minimal surfaces of finite total curvature with two ends. A family of such minimal surfaces with least total absolute curvature is given. Moreover, we obtain a uniqueness theorem for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Shoichi Fujimori , Toshihiro Shoda

Deformations of minimal surfaces lying in constant time slices in static space-times are studied. An exact and universal formula for a change of the area of a minimal surface under shifts of nearby point-like particles is found. It allows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Dmitri V. Fursaev

We prove a compactness theorem for embedded measured hyperbolic Riemann surface laminations in a compact almost complex manifold $(X, J)$. To prove compactness result, we show that there is a suitable topology on the space of measured…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Divakaran Divakaran , Dheeraj Kulkarni