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This work is on surfaces with a constant ratio of principal curvatures. These CRPC surfaces generalize minimal surfaces but are much more challenging to construct. We propose a construction of a family of such surfaces containing a given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Mikhail Skopenkov , Khusrav Yorov

For every $p,q\geq 1$, we construct minimal embeddings of $\mathbb{S}^p \times \mathbb{S}^q \times \mathbb{S}^1$ in $\mathbb{S}^{p + q + 2}$ by doubling the links of free-boundary minimal cones in $\mathbb{R}^{p+q+3}$ with bi-orthogonal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis

We present a novel and comprehensive approach to the study of the parametric Plateau problem for locally strictly convex (LSC) hypersurfaces of prescribed curvature for general convex curvature functions inside general Riemannian manifolds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Graham Smith

In this paper we develop methods to extend the minimal hypersurface approach to positive scalar curvature problems to all dimensions. This includes a proof of the positive mass theorem in all dimensions without a spin assumption. It also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Richard Schoen , Shing-Tung Yau

We consider a Plateau problem in codimension $1$ in the non-parametric setting. A Dirichlet boundary datum is given only on part of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a bounded convex domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. Where the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Giovanni Bellettini , Roberta Marziani , Riccardo Scala

In [15], Jean Taylor has proved a regularity theorem away from boundary for Almgren almost minimal sets of dimension two in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. It is quite important for understanding the soap films and the solutions of Plateau's problem away…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Yangqin Fang

In this paper, we give some examples of area minimizing surfaces to clarify some well-known features of these surfaces in more general settings. The first example is about Meeks-Yau's result on embeddedness of solution to the Plateau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Baris Coskunuzer

We obtain a full resolution result for minimizers in the exterior isoperimetric problem with respect to a compact obstacle in the large volume regime $v\to\infty$. This is achieved by the study of a Plateau-type problem with free boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Francesco Maggi , Michael Novack

We construct non-flat minimal capillary cones with bi-orthogonal symmetry groups for any dimension and contact angle. These cones interpolate between rescalings of a singular solution to the one-phase problem and the free-boundary cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis , Yipeng Wang

A mean-convex set can be regarded as a barrier for the construction of minimal surfaces. Namely, if we are given a mean-convex set and a null-homotopic Jordan curve on its boundary, then there exists an embedded minimal disk with boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Emanuele Spadaro

We investigate the class of geodesic metric discs satisfying a uniform quadratic isoperimetric inequality and uniform bounds on the length of the boundary circle. We show that the closure of this class as a subset of Gromov-Hausdorff space…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Paul Creutz

We provide new general methods in the calculus of variations for the anisotropic Plateau problem in arbitrary dimension and codimension. A new direct proof of Almgren's 1968 existence result is presented; namely, we produce from a class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Jenny Harrison , Harrison Pugh

In this paper we provide an estimate from above for the value of the relaxed area functional for a map defined on a bounded domain of the plane with values in the plane and discontinuous on a regular simple curve with two endpoints. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Giovanni Bellettini , Maurizio Paolini , Lucia Tealdi

For a proper immersed minimal disk in $\bf{R}^N$ with quadratic area growth, we show that any harmonic function whose negative part grows at a slow sub-linear rate is constant. This leads to a higher codimensional Bernstein theorem for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

Given a closed oriented manifold or more generally a group homology class, we introduce the spherical Plateau problem, which is a variational problem corresponding to a topological invariant called the spherical volume. In principle, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Antoine Song

We prove existence and regularity of minimizers for H\"older densities over general surfaces of arbitrary dimension and codimension in \(\R^n \), satisfying a cohomological boundary condition, providing a natural dual to Reifenberg's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-03 J. Harrison , H. Pugh

In 1970, Lawson solved the topological realization problem for minimal surfaces in the sphere, showing that any closed orientable surface can be minimally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^3$. The analogous problem for surfaces with boundary was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mikhail Karpukhin , Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

We prove the existence of solutions to the asymptotic Plateau problem for hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds $N$. More precisely, given a suitable subset $L$ of the asymptotic boundary of $N$ and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Ilkka Holopainen , Jaime B. Ripoll

The Kirchhoff-Plateau problem concerns the equilibrium shapes of a system in which a flexible filament in the form of a closed loop is spanned by a liquid film, with the filament being modeled as a Kirchhoff rod and the action of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Giulio G. Giusteri , Luca Lussardi , Eliot Fried

Using a geometric construction, we solve Plateau's Problem in the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^{1}$ for intrinsic graphs defined on a convex domain $D$, under a smallness condition either on the boundary $\partial D$ or on the Lipschitz…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Roberto Monti , Giacomo Vianello