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In this paper, we prove gap results for constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces. Firstly, we find a natural inequality for CMC surfaces which imply convexity for distance function. We then show that if $\Sigma$ is a complete, properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Ezequiel Barbosa , Marcos P. Cavalcante , Edno Pereira

We prove index estimates for closed and free boundary CMC surfaces in certain $3$-dimensional submanifolds of some Euclidean space. When the mean curvature is large enough we are able to prove that the index of a CMC surface in an arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Nicolau S. Aiex , Han Hong

As is well known, constant mean curvature (CMC) spacelike hypersurfaces play an important role in solving the Einstein equations, both in solving the contraints and the evolution equations. In this paper we review the CMC existence result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-12 Gregory J. Galloway , Eric Ling

This paper proposes a method for computing the visible occluding contours of subdivision surfaces. The paper first introduces new theory for contour visibility of smooth surfaces. Necessary and sufficient conditions are introduced for when…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chenxi Liu , Pierre Bénard , Aaron Hertzmann , Shayan Hoshyari

We investigate CMC-surfaces with periodic metric in a dressing orbit of the cylinder. It is shown, that such surfaces are always of finite type. Using the periodicity conditions for the extended frame of a CMC-surface, we develop an…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Josef Dorfmeister , Guido Haak

In this paper, we develop a min-max theory for the construction of constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in an arbitrary closed manifold. As a corollary, we prove the existence of a nontrivial, smooth,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Xin Zhou , Jonathan J. Zhu

Available algorithms for the initialization of volume fractions typically utilize exact functions to model fluid interfaces, or they rely on computationally costly intersections between volume meshes. Here, a new algorithm is proposed that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tobias Tolle , Dirk Gründing , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Marić

We study the volume preserving mean curvature flow of a surface immersed in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold modeling an isolated gravitating system in General Relativity. We show that, if the ambient manifold has positive ADM mass and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Carlo Sinestrari , Jacopo Tenan

The evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface driven by both mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface is formulated into a system, which couples the velocity law not only to the surface partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We use integrable systems techniques to study the singularities of timelike non-minimal constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space. The singularities arise at the boundary of the Birkhoff big cell of the loop…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 David Brander , Martin Svensson

Consider the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ endowed with a canonical semi-symmetric non-metric connection determined by a vector field $\mathsf{C}\in\mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. We study surfaces when the sectional curvature with respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López , Adela Mihai

The classical Bj\"orling problem is to find the minimal surface containing a given real analytic curve with tangent planes prescribed along the curve. We consider the generalization of this problem to non-minimal constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-02 David Brander , Josef F. Dorfmeister

In this paper, we can prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the constant mean curvature (CMC for short) equation with nonzero Neumann boundary data in product manifold $M^{n}\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M^{n}$ is an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Ya Gao , Jing Mao , Chun-Lan Song

We construct a new class of complete constant mean curvature surfaces in R^3. These are geometrically different than the surfaces constructed by Kapouleas' gluing technique. These are obtained by piecing together half-Delaunay surfaces to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafe Mazzeo , Frank Pacard

Accurate boundary detection in high-dimensional data remains a central challenge in unsupervised learning, particularly in the presence of non-linear structures and heterogeneous densities. In this work, we introduce Mean Curvature Boundary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alexandre L. M. Levada

A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We use a Simons type equation in order to characterize complete non-minimal pmc surfaces with non-negative Gaussian curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-17 Dorel Fetcu , Harold Rosenberg

We present a collection of easily stated open problems in the theory of compact constant mean curvature surfaces with boundary. We also survey the current status of answering them.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Rafael López

We translate a classification scheme for periodic CMC surfaces developed by J. Dorfmeister and the author to discrete CMC surfaces in the sense of A. Bobenko and U. Pinkall. The scheme uses the dressing action on discrete CMC surfaces to…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Guido Haak

Accurate representation of interfaces and flux exchange is vital for coupled multiphysics simulations across a broad range of applications. Currently, coupling approaches are limited by the underlying discretization or to specific physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ethan Huff , Savio J. Poovathingal