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Defined mathematically as critical points of surface area subject to a volume constraint, constant mean curvatures (CMC) surfaces are idealizations of interfaces occurring between two immiscible fluids. Their behavior elucidates phenomena…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Nicholas D. Brubaker

It is shown that the equation which describes constant mean curvature surface via the generalized Weierstrass-Enneper inducing has Hamiltonian form. Its simplest finite-dimensional reduction has two degrees of freedom, integrable and its…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2009-10-28 B. G. Konopelchenko , I. A. Taimanov

We consider surfaces with constant mean curvature in certain warped product manifolds. We show that any such surface is umbilic, provided that the warping factor satisfies certain structure conditions. This theorem can be viewed as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-23 S. Brendle

In this paper we solve the Plateau problem for spacelike surfaces with constant mean curvature in Lorentz-Minkowski three-space $\l^3$ and spanning two circular (axially symmetric) contours in parallel planes. We prove that rotational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafael Lopez

We prove some sharp systolic inequalities for compact $3$-manifolds with boundary. They relate the (relative) homological systoles of the manifold to its scalar curvature and mean curvature of the boundary. In the equality case, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Eduardo Longa

In this paper we will discuss how one may be able to use mean curvature flow to tackle some of the central problems in topology in 4-dimensions. We will be concerned with smooth closed 4-manifolds that can be smoothly embedded as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi , Erik Kjaer Pedersen

Surfaces with constant mean curvature (CMC) are critical points of the area with volume constraint. They serve as a mathematical model of surfaces of soap bubbles and tiny liquid drops. CMC surfaces are said to be stable if the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Miyuki Koiso , Umpei Miyamoto

In [7], a notion of constant scalar curvature metrics on piecewise flat manifolds is defined. Such metrics are candidates for canonical metrics on discrete manifolds. In this paper, we define a class of vertex transitive metrics on certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Daniel Champion , Andrew Marchese , Jacob Miller , Andrea Young

We construct new constant mean curvature surfaces in H2xR. They arise as sister surfaces of Plateau solutions. It is a family of MC 1/2 surfaces with k ends, genus 1 and k-fold dihedral symmetry, k greater 2. The surfaces are Alexandrov-…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Julia Plehnert

We introduce a class of zero mean curvature surfaces with singularities in the isotropic 3-space, called ZMC-faces. As a main result, we establish three Osserman-type inequalities for a ZMC-face under certain assumptions on both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Riku Kishida

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 prove that curves of constant curvature satisfy the parametric $C^1$-dense relative $h$-principle in the space of immersed curves with nonvanishing curvature in Euclidean space $R^{n\geq 3}$. It follows that two knots of constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Mohammad Ghomi , Matteo Raffaelli

The aim of this paper is to extend classic results of the theory of CMC surfaces in the product spaces to the class of immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{M}^2(\kappa)\times\mathbb{R}$ whose mean curvature is given as a $C^1$ function depending…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Antonio Bueno

We flow a hypersurface in Euclidean space by mean curvature flow with a Neumann boundary condition, where the boundary manifold is any torus of revolution. If we impose the conditions that the initial manifold is compatible and does not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Ben Lambert

We prove the non-vanishing of the CMC flux of the boundaries of certain Riemannian manifolds with constant mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-30 William H. Meeks , Pablo Mira , Joaquín Pérez

We present a theorem on the unitarizability of loop group valued monodromy representations and apply this to show the existence of new families of constant mean curvature surfaces homeomorphic to a thrice-punctured sphere in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-27 N Schmitt , M Kilian , S-P Kobayashi , W Rossman

There are many non-trivial entire spacelike graphs with constant mean curvature $H$ (CMC $H$, for short) in the isotropic 3-space $\mathbb{I}^3$. In this paper, we show a value distribution theorem of Gaussian curvature of complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Shintaro Akamine , Wonjoo Lee , Seong-Deog Yang

We propose a notion of stability for constant k-mean curvature hypersurfaces in a general Riemannian manifold and we give some applications. When the ambient manifold is a Space Form, our notion coincides with the known one, given by means…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Maria Fernanda Elbert , Barbara Nelli

It has long been conjectured that starting at a generic smooth closed embedded surface in R^3, the mean curvature flow remains smooth until it arrives at a singularity in a neighborhood of which the flow looks like concentric spheres or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper, we study the intrinsic mean curvature flow on certain closed spacelike manifolds, and prove the existence of hyperbolic structures on them.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-23 Kun Zhang