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Using harmonic mean curvature flow, we establish a sharp Minkowski type lower bound for total mean curvature of convex surfaces with a given area in Cartan-Hadamard 3-manifolds. This inequality also improves the known estimates for total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Mohammad Ghomi , Joel Spruck

We develop an invariant local theory of Lorentz surfaces in pseudo-Euclidean 4-space by use of a linear map of Weingarten type. We find a geometrically determined moving frame field at each point of the surface and obtain a system of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Yana Aleksieva , Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We examine the space of surfaces in $\RR^{3}$ which are complete, properly embedded and have nonzero constant mean curvature. These surfaces are noncompact provided we exclude the case of the round sphere. We prove that the space $\Mk$ of…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Rob Kusner , Rafe Mazzeo , Daniel Pollack

When considering regularity of surfaces, it is its geometry that is of interest. Thus, the concept of geometric regularity or geometric continuity of a specific order is a relevant concept. In this paper we discuss necessary and sufficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-03 Bo I Johansson

In this paper, we extend our investigation of the class of biconservative surfaces with non-constant mean curvature in 4-dimensional space forms $N^4(\epsilon)$. Specifically, we focus on biconservative surfaces with non-parallel normalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Ştefan Andronic , Stefano Montaldo , Cezar Oniciuc , Antonio Sanna

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

Recall that the moduli space of smooth (that is, stable) cubic curves is isomorphic to the quotient of the upper half plane by the group of fractional linear transformations with integer coefficients. We establish a similar result for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Allcock , James A. Carlson , Domingo Toledo

In this paper we will show that two surfaces of the same genus and homology class in a simply connected 4-manifold are concordant. We will show they are often topologically isotopic when their complements have cyclic fundamental group.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-29 Nathan Sunukjian

Cone spherical surfaces are orientable Riemannian surfaces with constant curvature one and a finite set of conical singularities. A subset of these surfaces, referred to as dihedral surfaces, is characterized by their monodromy groups,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Sicheng Lu , Bin Xu

In this paper, we prove homological stability of symplectomorphisms and extended hamiltonians of surfaces made discrete. We construct an isomorphism from the stable homology group of symplectomorphisms and extended Hamiltonians of surfaces…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Sam Nariman

We address the problem of second order conformal deformation of spacelike surfaces in compactified Minkowski 4-space. We explain the construction of the exterior differential system of conformal deformations and discuss its general and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

The paper focuses on the conformal Lorentz geometry of quasi-umbilical timelike surfaces in the $(1+2)$-Einstein universe, the conformal compactification of Minkowski 3-space realized as the space of oriented null lines through the origin…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi , Mason Pember

Global isothermic immersions are defined and studied with the aid of a connection between quadratic differentials and immersions. The applications are two problems stemming from the fundamental question: how much data is needed to identify…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 George I. Kamberov

We show, using standard results in length spectrum rigidity and symplectic homology, that if the unit tangent bundles of two compact surfaces of negative curvature are exact symplectomorphic, then the underlying surfaces are isometric, and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Burns , R. Hind

We prove that if two conformal embeddings between Riemann surfaces with finite topology are homotopic, then they are isotopic through conformal embeddings. Furthermore, we show that the space of all conformal embeddings in a given homotopy…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Maxime Fortier Bourque

We develop a framework for characterizing isometric immersions of simply connected, bounded, planar regions with piecewise smooth boundaries into three-dimensional space. Each immersion is associated with a framed curve along the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Brian Seguin , Eliot Fried

Internal stabilization adds a trivial handle to an embedded surface in a coordinate chart. It is known that any pair of smoothly knotted surfaces in a simply-connected $4$-manifold become smoothly isotopic after sufficiently many internal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-01 David Auckly

A model describing cell membranes as optimal shapes with regard to the $L^2$-deficit of their mean curvature to a given constant called spontaneous curvature is considered. It is shown that the corresponding energy functional is lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Christian Scharrer

Let $\mathbb{Q}_3$ be the complex 3-quadric endowed with its standard complex conformal structure. We study the complex conformal geometry of isotropic curves in $\mathbb{Q}_3$. By an isotropic curve we mean a nonconstant holomorphic map…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

In this article we address a number of features of the moduli space of spherical metrics on connected, compact, orientable surfaces with conical singularities of assigned angles, such as its non-emptiness and connectedness. We also consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Gabriele Mondello , Dmitri Panov