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For every $g\in\mathbb{N}_0$ and $\epsilon>0$, we construct a smooth genus $g$ surface embedded into the unit ball with area $8\pi$ and Willmore energy smaller than $8\pi + \epsilon$. From this we deduce that a minimising sequence for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Stephan Wojtowytsch

We propose a model for nonlinearly elastic membranes undergoing finite deformations while confined to a regular frictionless surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This is a physically correct model of the analogy sometimes given to motivate harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Timothy J. Healey , Gokul G. Nair

Given a polyhedral surface, assume that it is prohibited to change the shape and size of any face but it is permissible to change the dihedral angles between the faces. A polyhedral surface is said to be flexible if it is possible to change…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Alexandrov

A triangulation of a compact 3-manifold is annular-efficient if it is 0-efficient and the only normal, incompressible annuli are thin edge-linking. If a compact 3-manifold has an annular-efficient triangulation, then it is irreducible,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-08-16 William Jaco , J. Hyam Rubinstein

This article gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the formation of trapped surfaces in spherically symmetric initial data defined on a closed manifold. Such trapped surfaces surround a region in which there occurs an enhancement of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Edward Malec , Niall Ó Murchadha

We consider geometric triangulations of surfaces, i.e., triangulations whose edges can be realized by disjoint locally geodesic segments. We prove that the flip graph of geometric triangulations with fixed vertices of a flat torus or a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Vincent Despré , Jean-Marc Schlenker , Monique Teillaud

We introduce a notion of a bounded ideal triangulation of an infinite Riemann surface and parametrize Teichm\"uller spaces of infinite surfaces which allow bounded triangulations. We prove that our parametrization is real-analytic. Riemann…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Casey Whitney , Dragomir Saric

The energy of any $C^1$ representative of a homotopy class of maps from a compact and connected Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature into a complete Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points is bounded below by a constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-24 James Dibble

We investigate zigzags in triangulations of connected closed $2$-dimensional surfaces and show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between triangulations with homogeneous zigzags and closed $2$-cell embeddings of directed Eulerian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Mariusz Kwiatkowski , Mark Pankov , Adam Tyc

We characterise which simplicial surfaces can be folded onto a triangle. We define a notion of folding that incorporates the non-intersection-properties of real materials. All of the surfaces foldable onto a triangle admit a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Markus Baumeister

Using the local picture of the degeneration of sequences of minimal surfaces developed by Chodosh, Ketover and Maximo we show that in any closed Riemannian 3-manifold $(M,g)$, the genus of an embedded CMC surface can be bounded only in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Artur B. Saturnino

Based on the work of Durhuus-J{\'o}nsson and Benedetti-Ziegler, we revisit the question of the number of triangulations of the 3-ball. We introduce a notion of nucleus (a triangulation of the 3-ball without internal nodes, and with each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Pierre Collet , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Maher Younan

A triangulation of a surface is irreducible if no edge can be contracted to produce a triangulation of the same surface. In this paper, we investigate irreducible triangulations of surfaces with boundary. We prove that the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Alexandre Boulch , Éric Colin de Verdière , Atsuhiro Nakamoto

We show the existence of a smooth spherical surface minimizing the Willmore functional subject to an area constraint in a compact Riemannian three-manifold, provided the area is small enough. Moreover, we classify complete surfaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Tobias Lamm , Jan Metzger

We prove strong crystallization results in two dimensions for an energy that arises in the theory of block copolymers. The energy is defined on sets of points and their weights, or equivalently on the set of atomic measures. It consists of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-11 D. P. Bourne , M. A. Peletier , F. Theil

This note is to concern a generalization to the case of twisted coefficients of the classical theory of Abelian differentials on a compact Riemann surface. We apply the Dirichlet's principle to a modified energy functional to show the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi-Hu Yang

Biconservative surfaces are surfaces with divergence-free stress-bienergy tensor. Simply connected, complete, non-$CMC$ biconservative surfaces in $3$-dimensional space forms were constructed working in extrinsic and intrinsic ways. Then,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Simona Nistor , Cezar Oniciuc

We establish a general criterion for the existence of finite energy foliations on contact three-manifolds with boundary, imposing strong global constraints on the associated Reeb flows. Our main abstract result shows that a configuration of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lei Liu , Pedro A. S. Salomão

Triangulated surfaces are compact Riemann surfaces equipped with a conformal triangulation by equilateral triangles. In 2004, Brooks and Makover asked how triangulated surfaces are distributed in the moduli space of Riemann surfaces as the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Sahana Vasudevan

We apply the method of Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction to study large area-constrained Willmore surfaces in Riemannian 3-manifolds asymptotic to Schwarzschild. In particular, we prove that the end of such a manifold is foliated by distinguished…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Michael Eichmair , Thomas Koerber