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We find maximal representatives within equivalence classes of metric spheres. For Ahlfors regular spheres these are uniquely characterized by satisfying the seemingly unrelated notions of Sobolev-to-Lipschitz property, or volume rigidity.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Paul Creutz , Elefterios Soultanis

We review some recent results on the phenomenon of surface superconductivity in the framework of Ginzburg-Landau theory for extreme type-II materials. In particular, we focus on the response of the superconductor to a strong longitudinal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Michele Correggi

We study minimal Lagrangian surfaces in the complex hyperbolic quadric. We show that minimality of a Lagrangian surface is characterized by a loop of flat connections, which yields an associated $\mathbb S^1$-family of isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Shimpei Kobayashi , Sihao Zeng

The problem of the reflectance of a photon by a metallic mirror whose position is treated quantum mechanically is considered. The interaction between the metallic surface and the light is treated classically. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-25 Pablo L. Saldanha

We extend Newton's problem of minimal resistance to the Lorentz-Minkowski space. We derive the functional energy and determine the Euler-Lagrange equation. In contrast to the Euclidean case, this equation is quasilinear elliptic, and thus,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Rafael López

The spin-selective reflection to introduce chirality which can have a lot of applications in real life such as spectroscopy, optical setups, media industry etc. In this paper, a reflection based metasurface proposed to introduce the giant…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Asif Ali , Syeda Rida Tahir , Muhammad Adnan

Based on works by Hopf, Weinberger, Hamilton and Evans, we state and prove the strong elliptic maximum principle for smooth sections in vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds and give some applications in Differential Geometry. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

In this paper we investigate the intersection problem for $1$-surfaces immersed in a complete Riemannian three-manifold $P$ with Ricci curvature bounded from below by $-2$. We first prove a Frankel's type theorem for $1$-surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-10 G. Pacelli Bessa , Tiarlos Cruz , Leandro F. Pessoa

In this paper, we characterize and classify all surfaces endowed with canonical principal direction relative to a space-like and light-like, constant direction in Minkowski 3-spaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Alev Kelleci , Mahmut Ergüt , Nurettin Cenk Turgay

Spin-conserving and spin-flip opaque reflections of electrons from a potential barrier in heterostructures are described. An electric field of the barrier is considered to be the only source of energy spin splitting in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Pawel Pfeffer , Wlodek Zawadzki

We first describe the numerical invariants attached to the second fundamental form of a spacelike surface in four-dimensional Minkowski space. We then study the configuration of the nu-principal curvature lines on a spacelike surface, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Pierre Bayard , Federico Sánchez-Bringas

We consider Lie minimal surfaces, the critical points of the simplest Lie sphere invariant energy, in Riemannian space forms. These surfaces can be characterized via their Euler-Lagrange equations, which take the form of differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Joseph Cho , Masaya Hara , Denis Polly , Tomohiro Tada

Some analysis on the Lorentzian distance in a spacetime with controlled sectional (or Ricci) curvatures is done. In particular, we focus on the study of the restriction of such distance to a spacelike hypersurface satisfying the Omori-Yau…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-16 Luis J. Alias , Ana Hurtado , Vicente Palmer

A geometrical correspondence between maximal surfaces in anti-De Sitter space-time and minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of the hyperbolic plane and the real line is established. New examples of maximal surfaces in anti-De Sitter…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Francico Torralbo

Observing a linear superposition principle, a family of new minimal hypersurfaces in Euclidean space is found, as well as that linear combinations of generalized helicoids induce new algebraic minimal cones of arbitrarily high degree.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Jens Hoppe

We consider light ray reflections in $n$-dimensional semi-infinite tube, for $n\geq 3$, made of Lambertian material. The source of light is placed far away from the exit, and the light ray is assumed to reflect so that the distribution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Krzysztof Burdzy , Tvrtko Tadić

Relativistic reflection features are commonly observed in the X-ray spectra of stellar-mass and supermassive black holes and originate from illumination of the inner part of the accretion disk by a hot corona. All the available relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Shafqat Riaz , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Sourabh Nampalliwar

In the setting of fractional minimal surfaces, we prove that if two nonlocal minimal sets are one included in the other and share a common boundary point, then they must necessarily coincide. This strict maximum principle is not obvious,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Serena Dipierro , Ovidiu Savin , Enrico Valdinoci

We present a version of the Lorentzian splitting theorem under a weakened Ricci curvature condition. The proof makes use of basic properties of achronal limits [19], [20], together with the geometric maximum principle for $C^0$ spacelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Gregory J. Galloway