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The classical Minkowski formula is extended to spacelike codimension-two submanifolds in spacetimes which admit "hidden symmetry" from conformal Killing-Yano two-forms. As an application, we obtain an Alexandrov type theorem for spacelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang , Xiangwen Zhang

We investigate integral conditions involving the mean curvature vector $\vec{H}$ or mixed higher-order mean curvatures, to determine when a codimension-two submanifold $\Sigma$ lies on a shear-free (umbilical) null hypersurface in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Xianfeng Wang

We study the Minkowski formula of conformal Killing-Yano two-forms in a spacetime of constant curvature. We establish the spacetime Alexandrov theorem with a free boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Xiaoxiang Chai

In this paper, we consider the classification problem for critical points of relative isoperimetric-type problem in the half-space. Under certain regularity assumption, we prove an Alexandrov-type theorem for the singular capillary CMC…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Chao Xia , Xuwen Zhang

We show that supersymmetric M-theory compactifications to three-dimensional Minkowski space-time preserving $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry allow for a class of internal manifolds more general than the Calabi-Yau one, namely the class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 C. S. Shahbazi

In this paper we provide an extension to the Jellett-Minkowski's formula for immersed submanifolds into ambient manifolds which possesses a pole and radial curvatures bounded from above or below by the radial sectional curvatures of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Vicent Gimeno

In this paper, we show that any embedded capillary hypersurface in the half-space with anisotropic constant mean curvature is a truncated Wulff shape. This extends Wente's result \cite{Wente80} to the anisotropic case and He-Li-Ma-Ge's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Xiaohan Jia , Guofang Wang , Chao Xia , Xuwen Zhang

We prove a generalization of Hsiung-Minkowski formulas for closed submanifolds in semi-Riemannian manifolds with constant curvature. As a corollary, we obtain volume and area upper bounds for k-convex hypersurfaces in terms of a weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Kwok-Kun Kwong

In this paper we give a new proof for an almost isometry theorem in Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Xiaole Su , Hongwei Sun , Yusheng Wang

In this paper, we establish a necessary condition for the logarithmic Minkowski problem in higher dimensions. This result generalizes a necessary condition proposed by Liu, Lu, Sun, and Xiong in their investigation of the two-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Mijia Lai , Zixiao Wang

A classical Theorem of Alexandrov states that the map associating its boundary to a convex polyhdedron of the 3-dimensional Euclidean space is a bijection from the set of convex polyhdedron up to congruence to the set of isometry classes of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Léo Brunswic

In the previous work [35], the second and third authors established a Bochner type formula on Alexandrov spaces. The purpose of this paper is to give some applications of the Bochner type formula. Firstly, we extend the sharp lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Zhongmin Qian , Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We consider the timelike minimal surface problem in Minkowski spacetimes and show local and global existence of such surfaces having arbitrary dimension $\geq 2$ and arbitrary co-dimension, provided they are initially close to a flat plane.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Allen , Lars Andersson , James Isenberg

In the present paper, we consider several valid notions of orientability of Alexandov spaces and prove that all such conditions are equivalent. Further, we give topological and geometric applications of the orientability. In particular, a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Ayato Mitsuishi

Results concerning the Casimir effect in a topologically closed Minkowski spacetime.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-17 Alex Venditti , Charles Dyer

In this paper we show that, in the definition of Alexandrov spaces with lower or upper curvature bound, the original conditions can be replaced with much weaker ones. For the purpose, we introduce `imaginary' comparison angles (and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Shengqi Hu , Xiaole Su , Yusheng Wang

In this paper, we show a local energy convexity of $W^{1,2}$ maps into $CAT(K)$ spaces. This energy convexity allows us to extend Colding and Minicozzi's width-sweepout construction to produce closed geodesics in any closed Alexandrov space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Longzhi Lin

We prove some Bernstein theorems for entire space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean spaces and, as a corollary, we obtain a new proof of the Calabi-Pogorelov theorem on global solutions of Monge-Ampere equations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Juergen Jost , Yuan-Long Xin

In this paper, we obtain a new Hsiung-Minkowski integral formula for anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces in the half-space, which includes the weighted Hsiung-Minkowski formula and classical anisotropic Minkowski identity for closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jinyu Gao , Guanghan Li

Classical H.Minkowski theorems on existence and uniqueness of convex polyhedra with prescribed directions and areas of faces as well as the well-known generalization of H.Minkowski uniqueness theorem due to A.D.Alexandrov are extended to a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Alexandrov
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