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We discover a family of closed, embedded minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional round sphere which includes new examples with low genus. The existence proof relies on an equivariant min-max procedure applied to a novel sweepout which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

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 study a problem of minimal surfaces with free boundary written in the form of a non convex minimization problem. Our aim is to characterize optimal solutions by finding a suitable calibration field. A natural upper bound of the infimum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Guy Bouchitté , Minh Phan

In this paper, we prove the existence of the free boundary minimal hypersurface of least area in compact manifolds with boundary. Such hypersurface can be viewed as the ground state of the volume spectrum introduced by Gromov. Moreover, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Qiang Guang , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

We use variational methods to construct a free boundary minimal surface in the three-dimensional unit ball with genus one, two boundary components and prismatic symmetry. Key ingredients are an extension of the equivariant min-max theory to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Giada Franz , Daniel Ketover , Mario B. Schulz

Let N be a closed irreducible 3-manifold and assume N is not a graph manifold. We improve for all but finitely many S^1-bundles M over N the adjunction inequality for the minimal complexity of embedded surfaces. This allows us to completely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Stefan Friedl , Stefano Vidussi

The Chern-minimal surfaces in Hermitian surface play a similar role as minimal surfaces in K\"ahler surface (see \cite{[PX-21]}) from the viewpoint of submanifolds. This paper studies the compactness of Chern-minimal surfaces. We prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Xiaowei Xu

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

Recently Fraser and Schoen showed that the solution of a certain extremal Steklov eigenvalue problem on a compact surface with boundary can be used to generate a free boundary minimal surface, i.e., a surface contained in the ball that has…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Chiu-Yen Kao , Braxton Osting , Èdouard Oudet

A very interesting problem in the classical theory of minimal surfaces consists of the classification of such surfaces under some geometrical and topological constraints. In this short paper, we give a brief summary of the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Magdalena Rodriguez

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

We prove the existence of complete minimal surfaces of genus g>1 which minimize the total curvature for their genus. Our method is first to identify this (Weierstrass high dimensional period) problem with the problem of finding a particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matthias Weber , Michael Wolf

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

For every $p,q\geq 1$, we construct minimal embeddings of $\mathbb{S}^p \times \mathbb{S}^q \times \mathbb{S}^1$ in $\mathbb{S}^{p + q + 2}$ by doubling the links of free-boundary minimal cones in $\mathbb{R}^{p+q+3}$ with bi-orthogonal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis

Given a sequence of properly embedded minimal surfaces in a $3$-manifold with local bounds on area and genus, we prove subsequential convergence, smooth away from a discrete set, to a smooth embedded limit surface, possibly with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

Using equivariant differential geometry, we provide a family of free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Anna Siffert , Jan Wuzyk

Inspired by the Taubes-Wu construction of $\mathcal{C}^{1,\alpha}$ two-valued harmonic functions by the use of symmetry, we construct minimal surfaces with stratified branching sets as graphs of $\mathcal{C}^{1,\alpha}$ two-valued…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Federico Franceschini , Rafe Mazzeo , Paul Minter

In this paper we prove a rigidity statement for free boundary minimal surfaces produced via min-max methods. More precisely, we prove that for any Riemannian metric $g$ on the 3-ball $B$ with non-negative Ricci curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Laurent Mazet , Abraão Mendes

In this paper, we give several results on area minimizing surfaces in strictly mean convex 3-manifolds. First, we study the genus of absolutely area minimizing surfaces in a compact, orientable, strictly mean convex 3-manifold M bounded by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-02 Theodora Bourni , Baris Coskunuzer

We construct a new family of high genus examples of free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean unit 3-ball by desingularizing the intersection of a coaxial pair of a critical catenoid and an equatorial disk. The surfaces are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Martin Man-chun Li