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This article deals with the existence of hypersurfaces minimizing general shape functionals under certain geometric constraints. We consider as admissible shapes orientable hypersurfaces satisfying a so-called reach condition, also known as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Yannick Privat , Rémi Robin , Mario Sigalotti

The classical Cohn-Vossen theorem states that two isometric compact convex surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ are congruent. In this short note, we generalize the classical Cohn-Vossen Theorem to higher dimensional surfaces in space form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Pengfei Guan , Xi Sisi Shen

We show that Scherk's first surface, a one-parameter family of solutions to the minimal surface equation, may be written as a linear superposition of other solutions with specific parametric values.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Kamien

We prove optimal regularity and a detailed analysis of the free boundary of the solutions to the thin obstacle problem for nonparametric minimal surfaces with flat obstacles.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Matteo Focardi , Emanuele Spadaro

Some elementary considerations are presented concerning Catenoids and their stability, separable minimal hypersurfaces, minimal surfaces obtainable by rotating shapes, determinantal varieties, minimal tori in S3, the minimality in Rnk of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jens Hoppe

We show that there are minimal graphs in R^{n+1} whose intersection with the portion of the horizontal hyperplane contained in the unit ball has any prescribed geometry, up to a small deformation. The proof hinges on the construction of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Alberto Enciso , M. Angeles Garcia-Ferrero , Daniel Peralta-Salas

Inspired by the Finn-Osserman (1964), Chern (1969), do Carmo-Peng (1979) proofs of the Bernstein theorem, which characterizes flat planes as the only entire minimal graphs, we prove a new rigidity theorem for associate families connecting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Hojoo Lee

We prove that a connected properly immersed minimal surface in Euclidean 3-space with infinite symmetry group whose intersection with a ball of radius R is less than 2\piR^2 is a plane, a catenoid or a Scherk singly-periodic minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William H. Meeks , Michael Wolf

A classical result by Marston Morse asserts that on some ellipsoids of ${\mathbb R}^3$ there exists exactly 3 closed and simple geodesics. The goal of this presentation is to prove that this rigidity result does not extend to higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Tristan Rivière

We investigate the evolution of closed strictly convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, n=3, for contracting normal velocities, including powers of the mean curvature, of the norm of the second fundamental form, and of the Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Martin Franzen

We derive some estimates for stable minimal hypersurfaces in $R^{n+1}$. The estimates are related to recent proofs of Bernstein theorems for complete stable minimal hypersurfaces in $R^{n+1}$ for $3\le n\le 5$ by Chodosh-Li,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Luen-Fai Tam

We present dynamic equations for two dimensional closed surfaces and analytically solve it for some simplified cases. We derive final equations for surface normal motions by two different ways. The solution of the equations of motions in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 David V. Svintradze

In this paper we prove two theorems. The first one is a structure result that describes the extrinsic geometry of an embedded surface with constant mean curvature (possibly zero) in a homogeneously regular Riemannian three-manifold, in any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-10 William H. Meeks , Joaquín Pérez , Antonio Ros

We will show that the distance between two minimal hypersurfaces is a Lipschitz continuous supersolution, in the viscosity sense, of a natural elliptic partial differential equation. This not only recovers several well-known properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper, we are interested in shape optimization problems involving the ge ometry (normal, curvatures) of the surfaces. We consider a class of hypersurface s in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ satisfying a uniform ball condition and we prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Jeremy Dalphin

We study minimal graphs in the homogeneous Riemannian 3-manifold $\widetilde{PSL_2(\mathbb{R})}$ and we give examples of invariant surfaces. We derive a gradient estimate for solutions of the minimal surface equation in this space and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-26 Rami Younes

We prove the existence of a one parameter family of minimal embedded hypersurfaces in $R^{n+1}$, for $n \geq 3$, which generalize the well known 2 dimensional "Riemann minimal surfaces". The hypersurfaces we obtain are complete, embedded,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Kaabachi , F. Pacard

We introduce canonical principal parameters on any strongly regular minimal surface in the three dimensional sphere and prove that any such a surface is determined up to a motion by its normal curvature function satisfying the Sinh-Poisson…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-08 Georgi Ganchev

In this paper we develop methods to extend the minimal hypersurface approach to positive scalar curvature problems to all dimensions. This includes a proof of the positive mass theorem in all dimensions without a spin assumption. It also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Richard Schoen , Shing-Tung Yau

A general study of minimal surfaces of the Riemannian product of two spheres S^2xS^2 is tackled. We stablish a local correspondence between (non-complex) minimal surfaces of S^2xS^2 and certain pair of minimal surfaces of the sphere S^3.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Francisco Torralbo , Francisco Urbano