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We show that the index of a constant mean curvature 1 surface in hyperbolic 3-space is completely determined by the compact Riemann surface and secondary Gauss map that represent it in Bryant's Weierstrass representation. We give three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-01 Levi Lopes de Lima , Wayne Rossman

We study constant mean curvature graphs in the Riemannian 3-dimensional Heisenberg spaces ${\cal H}={\cal H}(\tau)$. Each such ${\cal H}$ is the total space of a Riemannian submersion onto the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ with geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-03 Luis J. Alias , Marcos Dajczer , Harold Rosenberg

We prove a new Minkowski type formula for capillary hypersurfaces supported on totally geodesic hyperplanes in hyperbolic space. It leads to a volume-preserving flow starting from a star-shaped initial hypersurface. We prove the long-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Xiaoxiang Chai , Yimin Chen

We consider a special class of spacelike surfaces in the Minkowski 4-space which are one-parameter systems of meridians of the rotational hypersurface with timelike or spacelike axis. We call these surfaces meridian surfaces of elliptic or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

Given a closed Riemannian manifold $(M^{n+1},g)$,$3\leq n+1\leq7$.In this paper,we will prove that for any $c>0$,suppose the number of closed $c-CMC$ hypersurfaces is finite,then there exists a metric $h$ on $M$ such that the $c-CMC$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Xiaoxiang Jiao , Wenduo Zou

We prove the existence of complete, embedded, constant mean curvature 1 surfaces in 3 dimensional hyperbolic space when g, the genus of the surface, and n, the number of ends of the surface, satisfy either g=0 and $n\geq 1$ or $g \geq 1$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Pacard , Fernando A. A. Pimentel

We construct uncountably many isoparametric families of hypersurfaces in Damek-Ricci spaces. We characterize those of them that have constant principal curvatures by means of the new concept of generalized Kahler angle. It follows that, in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-03 J. Carlos Diaz-Ramos , Miguel Dominguez-Vazquez

We prove that a totally umbilical biharmonic surface in any $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold has constant mean curvature. We use this to show that a totally umbilical surface in Thurston's 3-dimensional geometries is proper biharmonic if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Ye-Lin Ou , Ze-Ping Wang

We prove a Minkowski type inequality for weakly mean convex and star-shaped hypersurfaces in warped cylinders which are asymptotically flat or hyperbolic. In particular, we show that this sharp inequality holds for outward minimizing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Shujing Pan , Bo Yang

In this paper, we study the $k$-Hessian curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We first prove the existence of translating solutions with given asymptotic behavior. Then, we prove that for strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Qu Changzheng , Wang Zhizhang , Wo Weifeng

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

In the present paper, we study timelike surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in the four-dimensional Minkowski space. We introduce special isotropic parameters on each such surface, which we call canonical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Victoria Bencheva , Velichka Milousheva

We study surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field in Euclidean or Minkowski 4-space. On any such surface we introduce special isothermal parameters (canonical parameters) and describe these surfaces in terms of three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

In this paper, we study the singularities of spacelike constant mean curvature one (CMC 1) surfaces in the de Sitter 3-space. We prove the duality between generalized conelike singular points and 5/2-cuspidal edges on spacelike CMC 1…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Atsufumi Honda , Himemi Sato

For constant mean curvature surfaces of class $C^2$ immersed inside Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifolds we obtain a formula for the second derivative of the area which involves horizontal analytical terms, the Webster scalar curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-27 César Rosales

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

In this paper, we prove the global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space in the context of the spacelike-characteristic Cauchy problem for Einstein vacuum equations. Spacelike-characteristic initial data are posed on a compact 3-disk and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Olivier Graf

Conformal mappings of surfaces of constant mean curvature onto compact bounded background spaces are constructed for Minkowski space-time and for Schwarzschild black hole spacetimes. In the black hole example, it is found that initial data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert H. Gowdy

This survey is an introduction to the geometry of co-Minkowksi space, the space of unoriented spacelike hyperplanes of the Minkowski space. Affine deformations of cocompact lattices of hyperbolic isometries act on it, in a way similar to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Thierry Barbot , François Fillastre

In this paper, we study four dimensional hypersurface M^4_r with proper mean curvature vector field (i.e. \Delta\vec{H} is proportional to \vec{H}) in pseudo-Riemannian space form N^5_s(c), and show that it has constant mean curvature, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Chao Yang , Jiancheng Liu , Li Du