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We study minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay at infinity. By comparison with capped spherical cones, we identify a precise borderline for the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Qi Ding , J. Jost , Y. L. Xin

We prove optimal genus bounds for minimal surfaces arising from the min-max construction of Simon-Smith. This confirms a conjecture made by Pitts-Rubinstein in 1986.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Daniel Ketover

Let M be a 3-manifold (possibly with boundary). We show that, for any positive integer g, there exists an open nonempty set of metrics on M for each of which there are stable compact embedded minimal surfaces of genus g with arbitrarily…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian Dean

We develop a bubble-compactness theory for embedded CMC hypersurfaces with bounded index and area inside closed Riemannian manifolds in low dimensions. In particular we show that convergence always occurs with multiplicity one, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Theodora Bourni , Ben Sharp , Giuseppe Tinaglia

In this article, we investigate a flow of inverse mean curvature type for capillary hypersurfaces in the half-space. We establish the global existence of solutions for this flow and demonstrate that it converges smoothly to a spherical cap…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng , Chao Xia

In this paper we investigate constant mean curvature surfaces with nonempty boundary in Euclidean space that meet a right cylinder at a constant angle along the boundary. If the surface lies inside of the cylinder, we obtain some results of…

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

We propose a notion of stability for capillary hypersurfaces with constant higher order mean curvature and we generalize some results of the classical stability theory for CMC capillary hypersurfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Leonardo Damasceno , Maria Fernanda Elbert

In this paper, we study the shape of the min-max minimal hypersurface produced by Almgren-Pitts-Schoen-Simon \cite{AF62, AF65, P81, SS81} in a Riemannian manifold $(M^{n+1}, g)$ of positive Ricci curvature for all dimensions. The min-max…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Xin Zhou

Ricci-Curbastro established necessary and sufficient conditions for a Riemannian metric on a surface to be the first fundamental form of a minimal immersion of that surface into the Euclidean space. We revisit certain developments arising…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Lucas Ambrozio

We survey Bernstein-type theorems for graphical surfaces in the Euclidean space and the Lorentz-Minkowski space. More specifically, we explain several proofs of the Bernstein theorem for minimal graphs in the Euclidean 3-space. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yu Kawakami

In this paper, we investigate the geometric properties associated with the $\mathfrak{g}$-stability of surfaces with boundary whose null expansion satisfies $\Theta^{+} = h \geq 0$. First, we show that a $\mathfrak{g}$-stable hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sanghun Lee

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 review some geometric criteria and prove a refined version, that yield existence of capillary surfaces in tubes $\Omega\times \mathbb{R}$ in a gravity free environment, in the case of physical interest, that is, for bounded, open, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Giorgio Saracco

On a smooth asymptotically flat Riemannian manifold with non-compact boundary, we prove a positive mass theorem for metrics which are only continuous across a compact hypersurface. As an application, we obtain a positive mass theorem on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

In 1970, Lawson solved the topological realization problem for minimal surfaces in the sphere, showing that any closed orientable surface can be minimally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^3$. The analogous problem for surfaces with boundary was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mikhail Karpukhin , Robert Kusner , Peter McGrath , Daniel Stern

Is it possible to obtain unbounded minimal surfaces in certain asymptotically flat 3-manifolds as a limit of solutions to a natural mountain pass problem with diverging boundaries? In this work, we give evidence that this might be true by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Rafael Montezuma

We address the one-parameter minmax construction, via Allen--Cahn energy, that has recently lead to a new proof of the existence of a closed minimal hypersurface in an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold $N^{n+1}$ with $n\geq 2$ (see…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Costante Bellettini

In this paper we prove that the generalized version of the Minimal Resolution Conjecture stated by Mustata holds for certain general sets of points on a smooth cubic surface $X \subset \mathbb{P}^3$. The main tool used is Gorenstein liaison…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marta Casanellas

We give a shorter proof of the existence of nontrivial closed minimal hypersurfaces in closed smooth $(n+1)$--dimensional Riemannian manifolds, a theorem proved first by Pitts for $2\leq n\leq 5$ and extended later by Schoen and Simon to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-27 Camillo De Lellis , Dominik Tasnady

We explain how the current knowledge on the set of complete noncompact constant mean curvature surfaces can be exploited to produce new examples of compact constant mean curvature surfaces of genus greater than or equal to 3.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Jleli , F. Pacard