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Define the 1-handle stabilization distance between two surfaces properly embedded in a fixed 4-dimensional manifold to be the minimal number of 1-handle stabilizations necessary for the surfaces to become ambiently isotopic. For every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Allison N. Miller , Mark Powell

This paper is the first in a series where we attempt to give a complete description of the space of all embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a fixed (but arbitrary) closed Riemannian 3-manifold. The key for understanding such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper we give a pinching theorem of the Simon conjecture in the case s=3 and also give a new proof of the cases s=1 and s=2 by some Simons-type integral inequalities.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Weiran Ding , Jianquan Ge , Fagui Li

We show scalar-mean curvature rigidity of warped products of round spheres of dimension at least 2 over compact intervals equipped with strictly log-concave warping functions. This generalizes earlier results of Cecchini-Zeidler to all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Christian Baer , Simon Brendle , Bernhard Hanke , Yipeng Wang

On a finite-volume hyperbolic $3$-manifold, we establish an upper bound on the area of closed embedded surfaces with constant mean curvature at least one, depending on the mean curvature and the genus bounds. This area bound implies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Ruojing Jiang

In the 1-parameter family of Berger spheres S^3(a), a > 0 (S^3(1) is the round 3-sphere of radius 1) we classify the stable constant mean curvature spheres, showing that in some Berger spheres (a close to 0) there are unstable constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Francisco Torralbo , Francisco Urbano

We study metrics on conic 2-spheres when no Einstein metrics exist. In particular, when the curvature of a conic metric is positive, we obtain the best curvature pinching constant. We also show that when this best pinching constant is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Hao Fang , Mijia Lai

We investigate the topology of the compact hypersurfaces in round spheres whose Ricci curvature satisfies an appropriate bound that only depends on the mean curvature of the submanifold. In this paper, the use of the Bochner technique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Marcos Dajczer , Miguel I. Jimenez , Theodoros Vlachos

We prove a dimension distortion estimate for mappings of sub-exponentially integrable distortion in Euclidean spaces, which is essentially sharp in the plane.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Tapio Rajala , Aleksandra Zapadinskaya , Thomas Zürcher

We show that one-sided Alexandrov embedded constant mean curvature cylinders of finite type in the 3-sphere are surfaces of revolution. This confirms a conjecture by Pinkall and Sterling that the only embedded constant mean curvature tori…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-17 M. Kilian , M. U. Schmidt

A Ricci surface is a Riemannian 2-manifold $(M,g)$ whose Gaussian curvature $K$ satisfies $K\Delta K+g(dK,dK)+4K^3=0$. Every minimal surface isometrically embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is a Ricci surface of non-positive curvature. At the end…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Andrei Moroianu , Sergiu Moroianu

We study convexity properties of distance functions in Finsler unitary groups, where the Finsler structure is defined by translation of the $p$-Schatten norm on the Lie algebra. As a result we prove the existence of circumcenters for sets…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Martin Miglioli

The classical Minkowski inequality in the Euclidean space provides a lower bound on the total mean curvature of a hypersurface in terms of the surface area, which is optimal on round spheres. In this paper we employ a locally constrained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Julian Scheuer

The classical isoperimetric inequality in R^3 states that the surface of smallest area enclosing a given volume is a sphere. We show that the least area surface enclosing two equal volumes is a double bubble, a surface made of two pieces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , Roger Schlafly

We consider surfaces embedded in a 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifold and the problem of the finiteness of the induced distance (i.e., the infimum of the length of horizontal curves that belong to the surface). Recently it has been proved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Eugenio Bellini , Ugo Boscain

We show that the mapping class group of a handlebody of genus at least 2 (with any number of marked points or spots) is exponentially distorted in the mapping class group of its boundary surface. The same holds true for solid tori with at…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ursula Hamenstädt , Sebastian Hensel

In this paper, we prove convergence of the high codimension mean curvature flow in the sphere to either a round point or a totally geodesic sphere assuming a pinching condition between the norm squared of the second fundamental form and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Charles Baker , Huy The Nguyen

Biconservative surfaces of Riemannian 3-space forms $N^3(\rho)$, are either constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces or rotational linear Weingarten surfaces verifying the relation $3\kappa_1+\kappa_2=0$ between their principal curvatures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Stefano Montaldo , Alvaro Pampano

In this paper, we prove that a two-dimensional self-shrinker, homeomorphic to the sphere, immersed in the three dimensional Euclidean space is a round sphere, provided its mean curvature and the norm of its position vector have an upper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Hilário Alencar , Gregório Silva Neto , Detang Zhou

This paper develops new tools for understanding surfaces with more than one end (and usually, of infinite topology) which properly minimally embed into Euclidean three-space. On such a surface, the set of ends forms a compact Hausdorff…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Pascal Collin , Robert Kusner , William H. Meeks , III , Harold Rosenberg