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Given a compact surface with boundary, we introduce a family of functionals on the space of its Riemannian metrics, defined via eigenvalues of a Steklov-type problem. We prove that each such functional is uniformly bounded from above, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Vanderson Lima , Ana Menezes

We prove that the area of a free boundary minimal surface $\Sigma^2 \subset B^n$, where $B^n$ is a geodesic ball contained in a round hemisphere $\mathbb{S}^n_+$, is at least as big as that of a geodesic disk with the same radius as $B^n$;…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Brian Freidin , Peter McGrath

In this article, we give computable lower bounds for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue $\sigma_1$ of a compact connected 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with several cylindrical boundary components. These estimates show how the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Hélène Perrin

In recent years, eigenvalue optimization problems have received a lot of attention, in particular, due to their connection with the theory of minimal surfaces. In the present paper we prove that on any orientable surface there exists a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Mikhail Karpukhin

We study free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball of low cohomogeneity. For each pair of positive integers $(m,n)$ such that $m, n >1$ and $m+n\geq 8$, we construct a free boundary minimal surface $\Sigma_{m, n} \subset B^{m+n}$(1)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Brian Freidin , Mamikon Gulian , Peter McGrath

In this note, we observe that if $B$ is a ball in a Euclidean space with dimension $n$, $n\geq3$, then a stable CMC hypersurface $\Sigma$ with free boundary in $B$ satisfies \[ nA\leq L\leq nA\left( \frac{1+\sqrt{1+4(n+1)H^2}}{2} \right)\,,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Ezequiel Barbosa

We show that, among free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball in the three-dimensional Euclidean space, the flat equatorial disk and the critical catenoid are characterised by a pinching condition on the length of their second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Lucas Ambrozio , Ivaldo Nunes

We employ min-max techniques to show that the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$ contains embedded free boundary minimal surfaces with connected boundary and arbitrary genus.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Alessandro Carlotto , Giada Franz , Mario B. Schulz

We construct free boundary minimal surfaces (FBMS) embedded in the unit ball in the Euclidean three-space which are compact, lie arbitrarily close to the boundary unit sphere, are of genus zero, and their boundary has an arbitrarily large…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Jiahua Zou

We study compactly free boundary minimal submanifolds in spherical caps $\Br$ and their geometric spectral properties. Following the foundational work of Fraser-Schoen \cite{FS2012}, Lima-Menezes \cite{LM23} established the connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Mateus Spezia

In this paper we prove that a flat free-boundary minimal $n$-disk, $n\geq3$, in the unit Euclidean ball $B^{n+1}$ is the unique compact free boundary minimal hypersurface in the unit Euclidean ball which the squared norm of the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Ezequiel Barbosa , Edno Pereira , Rosivaldo Antônio Gonçalves

We prove that the area of each nonflat genus zero free boundary minimal surface embedded in the unit $3$-ball is less than the area of its radial projection to $\mathbb{S}^2$. The inequality is asymptotically sharp, and we prove any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Peter McGrath , Jiahua Zou

Using methods in the spirit of deterministic homogenisation theory we obtain convergence of the Steklov eigenvalues of a sequence of domains in a Riemannian manifold to weighted Laplace eigenvalues of that manifold. The domains are obtained…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Alexandre Girouard , Jean Lagacé

We construct a family of compact free boundary minimal annuli immersed in the unit ball $\mathbb{B}^3$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$, the first such examples other than the critical catenoid. This solves a problem formulated by Nitsche in 1985. These…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Isabel Fernandez , Laurent Hauswirth , Pablo Mira

Let $(\Omega^{n+1}, g)$ be an $(n+1)$-dimensional smooth compact connected Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary $\Sigma$, satisfying that ${\text{Ric}_{\Omega}}\ge 0$ and $\Sigma$ is strictly convex, more precisely, its second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Yiwei Liu , Yi-Hu Yang

We explicitly classify all $S^1$-invariant free boundary minimal annuli and M\"obius bands in $\mathbb{B}^n$. This classification is obtained from an analysis of the spectrum of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for $S^1$-invariant metrics on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Ailana Fraser , Pam Sargent

We consider free boundary minimal submanifolds in geodesic balls in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^n$ and in the round upper hemisphere $\mathbb S^n_+$. Recently, Lima and Menezes have found a connection between free boundary minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Vladimir Medvedev

We generalize the following result of White: Suppose $N$ is a compact, strictly convex domain in $\RR^3$ with smooth boundary. Let $\Sigma$ be a compact 2-manifold with boundary. Then a generic smooth curve $\Gamma\cong \partial\Sigma$ in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-18 David Hoffman , Brian White

We show that metrics that maximize the k-th Steklov eigenvalue on surfaces with boundary arise from free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball. We prove several properties of the volumes of these minimal submanifolds. For free boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We obtain upper and lower bounds for Steklov eigenvalues of submanifolds with prescribed boundary in Euclidean space. A very general upper bound is proved, which depends only on the geometry of the fixed boundary and on the measure of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Bruno Colbois , Alexandre Girouard , Katie Gittins