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The {\em focal curve} of an immersed smooth curve $\gamma:s\mapsto \gamma(s)$, in Euclidean space $\R^{m+1}$, consists of the centres of its osculating hyperspheres. The focal curve may be parametrised in terms of the Frenet frame of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Ricardo Uribe-Vargas

Thin elastic films can spontaneously attach to liquid interfaces, offering a platform for tailoring their physical, chemical, and optical properties. Current understanding of the elastocapillarity of thin films is based primarily on studies…

We use Ilmanen's elliptic regularization to prove that for an initially smooth mean convex hypersurface in Euclidean n-space moving by mean curvature flow, the surface is very nearly convex in a spacetime neighborhood of every singularity.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Brian White

We study surfaces of constant positive Gauss curvature in Euclidean 3-space via the harmonicity of the Gauss map. Using the loop group representation, we solve the regular and the singular geometric Cauchy problems for these surfaces, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-02 David Brander

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem about spherical helicoidal (in particular, rotational) surfaces with prescribed mean or Gaussian curvature in terms of a continuous function depending on the distance to its axis. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

We deal with a robust notion of weak normals for a wide class of irregular curves defined in Euclidean spaces of high dimension. Concerning polygonal curves, the discrete normals are built up through a Gram-Schmidt procedure applied to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Domenico Mucci , Alberto Saracco

We consider the evolution of a $n$-dimensional convex hypersurface in the euclidean space under mean curvature flow with densities $e^{\varepsilon \frac12 n\mu^2 |x|^2}$, $\varepsilon =\pm 1$, and completely determine it depending on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-23 Alexander A. Borisenko , Vicente Miquel

We analytically study a stationary free boundary problem describing a soap film bridge subjected to an electrostatic force. Starting from a cylinder that the soap film forms if its surface tension and the electrostatic force are perfectly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Lina Sophie Schmitz

We study stationary points of the bending energy of curves $\gamma\colon[a,b]\to\mathbb{R}^n$ subject to constraints on the arc-length and the curve's holonomy while simultaneously allowing for a variable bending stiffness along the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Oliver Gross , Ulrich Pinkall , Moritz Wahl

It is proved that a generic simple, closed, piecewise regular curve in space can be the boundary of only finitely many developable surfaces with nonvanishing mean curvature. The relevance of this result in the context of the dynamics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Maria Alberich-Carramiñana , Jaume Amorós , Franco Coltraro

In this work, we study a class of rotational surfaces in the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}_2^4$ whose profile curves lie in two-dimensional planes. We solve the differential equation that characterizes the rotational surfaces with zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Burcu Bektaş , Elif Özkara Canfes , Uğur Dursun

We study a variational model for soap films in which the films are represented by sets with fixed small volume rather than surfaces. In this problem, a minimizing sequence of completely "wet" films, or sets of finite perimeter spanning a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Michael Novack

In this work, we give some new characterizations for inclined curves and slant helices in n-dimensional Euclidean space E^{n}. Morever, we consider the pre-characterizations about inclined curves and slant helices and reconfigure them.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Ali Şenol , Evren Ziplar , Yusuf Yayli , İsmail Gök

The contact between a liquid and an elastic solid generates a stress vector depending on the curvature tensor in each point of the separating surface. For nanometer values of the mean curvature and for suitable materials, the stress vector…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-05 Henri Gouin

A weak notion of elastic energy for (not necessarily regular) rectifiable curves in any space dimension is proposed. Our $p$-energy is defined through a relaxation process, where a suitable $p$-rotation of inscribed polygonals is adopted.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Domenico Mucci , Alberto Saracco

In this work, notion of a slant helix is extended to space E$^n$. Necessary and sufficient conditions to be a slant helix in the Euclidean $n-$space are presented. Moreover, we express some integral characterizations of such curves in terms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Ahmad Ali , Melih Turgut

We present a method to construct a large family of Lagrangian surfaces in complex Euclidean plane by using Legendre curves in the 3-sphere and in the anti de Sitter 3-space or, equivalently, by using spherical and hyperbolic curves,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Ildefonso Castro , Bang-yen Chen

We establish the existence of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and a prescribed boundary in Euclidean space, represented as radial graphs over domains of the unit sphere. Under the assumptions that the mean curvature of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Flávio Cruz , José T. Cruz , Jocel Oliveira

We classify rotational surfaces in a normed 3-space with rotationally symmetric norm whose principal curvatures satisfy a linear relation.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Makoto Sakaki , Kakeru Yanase

Classically, isothermic surfaces are characterized as those surfaces which are "divisible into infinitesimal squares by their curvature lines". This characterization is the direct analogue to the definition of discrete isothermic nets. In…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Udo Hertrich-Jeromin