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We consider a smooth Euclidean solid cone endowed with a smooth homogeneous density function used to weight Euclidean volume and hypersurface area. By assuming convexity of the cone and a curvature-dimension condition we prove that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-17 Antonio Cañete , César Rosales

The existence of embedded minimal surfaces in non-compact 3-manifolds remains a largely unresolved and challenging problem in geometry. In this paper, we address several open cases regarding the existence of finite-area, embedded, complete,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Baris Coskunuzer , Zheng Huang , Ben Lowe , Franco Vargas Pallete

We consider a convex solid cone $\mathcal{C}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with vertex at the origin and boundary $\partial\mathcal{C}$ smooth away from $0$. Our main result shows that a compact two-sided hypersurface $\Sigma$ immersed in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 César Rosales

In this article, we establish a relationship between geometric quantities of a hypersurface restricted to its boundary, and the geometric quantities of its boundary as a hypersurface of the boundary of the ball. As a first application, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Iury Domingos , Roney Santos , Feliciano Vitório

In this paper we develop an extremal eigenvalue approach to the problem of construction of free boundary minimal surfaces in the product of Euclidean balls of chosen radii. The extremal problem involves a linear combination of normalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jaigyoung Choe , Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We study framed surfaces, which are a class of Euclidean minimal and hyperbolic CMC-1 surfaces that generalize immersed minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and Bryant surfaces. For this class we prove a lower bound on the (unrestricted)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Davi Maximo , Franco Vargas Pallete

We describe all possible self-similar motions of immersed hypersurfaces in Euclidean space under the mean curvature flow and derive the corresponding hypersurface equations. Then we present a new two-parameter family of immersed helicoidal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Hoeskuldur P. Halldorsson

It is a well known phenomenon that many classical minimal surfaces in Euclidean space also exist with higher dihedral symmetry. More precisely, these surfaces are solutions to free boundary problems in a wedge bounded by two vertical planes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Ramazan Yol

We prove a lower bound for the first Steklov eigenvalue of embedded minimal hypersurfaces with free boundary in a compact $n$-dimensional manifold which has nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary. When $n=3$, this implies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Ailana Fraser , Martin Li

We investigate the limit behaviour of sequences of free boundary minimal hypersurfaces with bounded index and volume, by presenting a detailed blow-up analysis near the points where curvature concentration occurs. Thereby, we derive a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Lucas Ambrozio , Reto Buzano , Alessandro Carlotto , Ben Sharp

In this paper, we develop a general existence theory for properly embedded minimal surfaces with free boundary in any compact Riemannian 3-manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$. The main feature of our result is that no convexity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Martin Li

Theoretical background is provided towards the mathematical foundation of the minimum enclosing ball problem. This problem concerns the determination of the unique spherical surface of smallest radius enclosing a given bounded set in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Michael N. Vrahatis

In this article we study the shape of a compact surface of constant mean curvature of Euclidean space whose boundary is contained in a round sphere. We consider the case that the boundary is prescribed or that the surface meets the sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-22 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this study, we define a brief description of the hyperbolic and elliptic rotational surfaces using a curve and matrices in 4-dimensional semi Euclidean space. That is, we provide different types of rotational matrices, which are the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Fatma Almaz , Mihriban Alyamaç Külahcı

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

Let N be a complete, homogeneously regular Riemannian manifold of dimension greater than 2 and let M be a compact submanifold of N. Let $\Sigma$ be a compact orientable surface with boundary. We show that for any continuous $f: (\Sigma,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Jingyi Chen , Ailana Fraser , Chao Pang

In this note we use the strong maximum principle and integral estimates prove two results on minimal hypersurfaces $F:M^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with free boundary on the standard unit sphere. First we show that if $F$ is graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

Consider a convex domain B of space. We prove that there exist complete minimal surfaces which are properly immersed in B. We also demonstrate that if D and D' are convex domains with D bounded and the closure of D contained in D' then any…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francisco Martin , Santiago Morales

We establish general bounds on the topology of free boundary minimal surfaces obtained via min-max methods in compact, three-dimensional ambient manifolds with mean convex boundary. We prove that the first Betti number is lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giada Franz , Mario B. Schulz

We prove that in the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^4$, there is no complete two-sided stable free boundary immersion. The result follows from a rigidity theorem of complete free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in complete 4-manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Yujie Wu