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We study trapped surfaces from the point of view of local isometric embedding into three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. When a two-surface is embedded into three-dimensional Euclidean space, the problem of finding all surfaces applicable…

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We study the Darboux equation, a fundamental PDE arising in the theory of isometric immersions of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds into $\mathbb{R}^3$, in the low-regularity regime. We introduce a notion of weak solution for $u\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Wentao Cao , Jonas Hirsch , Dominik Inauen

Given a smooth 2-dimensional Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifold $(M, \boldsymbol{g})$ and an ambient 3-dimensional Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifold $(N, \boldsymbol{h})$, one can ask under what circumstances does the exterior…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Jeanne Clelland , Thomas Ivey , Naghmana Tehseen , Peter Vassiliou

We present a new numerical method for the isometric embedding of 2-geometries specified by their 2-metrics in three dimensional Euclidean space. Our approach is to directly solve the fundamental embedding equation supplemented by six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Wolfgang Tichy , Jonathan R. McDonald , Warner A. Miller

The isometric immersion of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds or surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. When the Gauss curvature is negative, the isometric immersion problem is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wentao Cao , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang

We give an account of the classical and integrable geometry of isothermic surfaces in arbitrary co-dimension. We show that the classical transformation theory of Darboux, Bianchi and Calapso goes through unchanged in arbitrary co-dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. E. Burstall

We study the old problem of isometrically embedding a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean 3-space. It is shown that if the Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two Lipschitz curves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

We study the problem of construction of explicit isometric embeddings of (pseudo)-Riemannian manifolds. We discuss the method which is based in the idea that the exterior symmetry of the embedded surface and the interior symmetry of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-17 A. A. Sheykin , M. V. Markov , Ya. A. Fedulov , S. A. Paston

We prove that the isometric embedding of any metric of differentiability class C1 in E3 exists. We use simplified notation for the given metric, namely geodesic parameters, and level parameters for the embedded surface in E3. Central to our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Edgar Kann

We study isometric embeddings of some solutions of the Einstein equations with suffciently high symmetries into a flat ambient space. We briefly describe a method for constructing surfaces with a given symmetry. We discuss all minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-21 S. A. Paston , A. A. Sheykin

A fundamental problem in differential geometry is to characterize intrinsic metrics on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold ${\mathcal M}^2$ which can be realized as isometric immersions into $\R^3$. This problem can be formulated as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Gui-Qiang Chen , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

While the notion of isometric deformations of surfaces is straightforward for surfaces with Euclidean metric, a corresponding notion in isotropic space has been missing. By making Gauss' Theorema Egregium a necessary condition we develop a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Christian Müller , Helmut Pottmann

The isometric immersion of two-dimensional Riemannian manifold with negative Gauss curvature into the three-dimensional Euclidean space is considered through the Gauss-Codazzi equations for the first and second fundamental forms. The large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Wentao Cao , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang

We study the problem of isometrically embedding a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold into Euclidean three-space. It is shown that if Gaussian curvature vanishes to finite order and its zero set consists of two smooth curves tangent at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Tsung-Yin Lin

The isometric embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds, which connects intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, is a central question in differential geometry with deep theoretical significance and wide-ranging applications. Despite extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Guangwei Gao , Kaibo Hu , Buyang Li , Ganghui Zhang

The main aim of this paper is to investigate Darboux rectifying curves on a smooth surface immersed in the Euclidean space. First, we discuss the component of the position vector of a Darboux rectifying curve on a smooth immersed surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Buddhadev Pal , Akhilesh Yadav

A semi-global isometric embedding of abstract surfaces with Gaussian curvature changing signs of any finite order is obtained through solving the Darboux equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Wentao Cao

We give a new proof for the local existence of a smooth isometric embedding of a smooth $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonzero Riemannian curvature tensor into $6$-dimensional Euclidean space. Our proof avoids the sophisticated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Gui-Qiang Chen , Jeanne Clelland , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang , Deane Yang

In this paper, we investigate sufficient condition for the invariance of a rectifying curve on a smooth surface immersed in Euclidean 3-space under isometry by using Darboux frame $\left\lbrace T, P, U\right\rbrace$. Further, we find the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Akhilesh Yadav , Buddhadev Pal

We present a numerical method for solving Weyl's embedding problem which consists of finding a global isometric embedding of a positively curved and positive-definite spherical 2-metric into the Euclidean three space. The method is based on…

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