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We propose a two-level structural optimization method for obtaining an approximate optimal shape of piecewise developable surface without specifying internal boundaries between surface patches. The condition for developability of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Makoto Ohsaki , Kentaro Hayakawa , Jingyao Zhang

This expository article discusses some connections between the geometry of a hyperbolic 3-manifold homotopy-equivalent to a surface, and the combinatorial properties of its end invariants. In particular a necessary and sufficient condition…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair N. Minsky

Let $\psi$ be a given function defined on a Riemannian space. Under what conditions does there exist a compact starshaped hypersurface $M$ for which $\psi$, when evaluated on $M$, coincides with the $m-$th elementary symmetric function of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Lucas M. Barbosa , Jorge H. S. de Lira , Vladimir Oliker

We consider discretized two-dimensional PDE-constrained shape optimization problems, in which shapes are represented by triangular meshes. Given the connectivity, the space of admissible vertex positions was recently identified to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

We prove for the first time a pointwise lower estimate of the normal injectivity radius of an embedded hypersurface in an arbitrary Riemannian manifold. Main applications include: (i) a pointwise lower estimate of the graphing radius of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Sebastian Boldt , Batu Güneysu , Stefano Pigola

Hypersurfaces are studied and classified under multiple additional assumptions in any Riemannian homogeneous space $(\mathbb{C}P^3, g_a)$, including nearly K\"ahler $\mathbb{C}P^3$. Notably, all extrinsically homogeneous hypersurfaces are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Michaël Liefsoens

Optimizing an implicational base of a closure system consists in turning this implicational base into an equivalent one with premises and conclusions as small as possible. This task is known to be hard in general but tractable for a number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Anthony Meunier , Lhouari Nourine , Simon Vilmin

In this article we prove that all boundary points of a minimal oriented hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold are regular, that is, in a neighborhood of any boundary point, the minimal surface is a $\mathcal{C}^{1, \frac14}$ submanifold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Simone Steinbruechel

We consider a convex Euclidean hypersurface that evolves by a volume or area preserving flow with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the mean curvature. For a broad class of possible speed functions, we show that any closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

We consider existence and uniqueness for several examples of linear parabolic equations formulated on moving hypersurfaces. Specifically, we study in turn a surface heat equation, an equation posed on a bulk domain, a novel coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Amal Alphonse , Charles M. Elliott , Björn Stinner

This paper makes the following original contributions. First, we develop a unifying framework for testing shape restrictions based on the Wald principle. The test has asymptotic uniform size control and is uniformly consistent. Second, we…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-08-03 Zheng Fang

We prove an integral formula for the spherical measure of hypersurfaces in equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds. Among various technical tools, we establish a general criterion for the uniform convergence of parametrized sub-Riemannian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Sebastiano Don , Valentino Magnani

We focus here on the analysis of the regularity or singularity of solutions $\Om_{0}$ to shape optimization problems among convex planar sets, namely: $$ J(\Om_{0})=\min\{J(\Om),\ \Om\ \textrm{convex},\ \Omega\in\mathcal S_{ad}\}, $$ where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Jimmy Lamboley , Michel Pierre , Arian Novruzi

Consider a compact surface of genus $\geq 2$ equipped with a metric that is flat everywhere except at finitely many cone points with angles greater than $2\pi$. Following the technique in the work of Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher, and Thompson,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Benjamin Call , David Constantine , Alena Erchenko , Noelle Sawyer , Grace Work

Polytopes are the basic finite data structures for convex sets: they appear as feasible regions in linear optimization, as geometric summaries in algorithms, and as random objects in stochastic geometry. A natural geometric question is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Steven Hoehner

We study area-minimizing hypersurfaces in singular ambient manifolds whose tangent cones have nonnegative scalar curvature on their regular parts. We prove that the singular set of the hypersurface has codimension at least 3 in our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Yihan Wang

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

This paper is concerned with the regularity of shape optimizers of a class of isoperimetric problems under convexity constraint. We prove that minimizers of the sum of the perimeter and a perturbative term, among convex shapes, are C…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Jimmy Lamboley , Raphaël Prunier

In this paper we find strictly locally convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with prescribed curvature and boundary. The main result is that if the given data admits a strictly locally convex radial graph as a subsolution, we can find…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Chenyang Su

We give a geometric proof that Hasse principle holds for the following varieties defined over global function fields: smooth quadric hypersurfaces in odd characteristic, smooth cubic hypersurfaces of dimension at least $4$ in characteristic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Zhiyu Tian