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We study the uniqueness of horospheres and equidistant spheres in hyperbolic space under different conditions. First we generalize the Bernstein theorem by Do Carmo and Lawson to the embedded hypersurfaces with constant higher order mean…

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We derive geometric formulas for the mass of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds using coordinate horospheres. As an application, we obtain a new rigidity result of hyperbolic space: if a complete asymptotically hyperbolic manifold has…

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A curve is rectifying if it lies on a moving hyperplane orthogonal to its curvature vector. In this work, we extend the main result of [Chen 2017, Tamkang J. Math. 48, 209] to any space dimension: we prove that rectifying curves are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Luiz C. B. da Silva , Gilson S. Ferreira

There are several well-known characterizations of the sphere as a regular surface in the Euclidean space. By means of a purely synthetic technique, we get a rigidity result for the sphere without any curvature conditions, nor completeness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Magdalena Caballero , Rafael M. Rubio

We show that each central configuration in the three-dimensional hyperbolic sphere is equivalent to one central configuration on a particular two- dimensional hyperbolic sphere. However, there exist both special and ordinary central…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Suo Zhao , Shuqiang Zhu

We present the theory of liquid bridges between two axisymmetric solids, sphere and plane, with prescribed contact angles in a general setup, when the solids are non-touching, touching or intersecting, We give a detailed derivation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-08-01 Boris Y. Rubinstein , Leonid G. Fel

We obtain a system for the spatial metric and extrinsic curvature of a spacelike slice that is hyperbolic non-strict in the sense of Leray and Ohya and is equivalent to the Einstein equations. Its characteristics are the light cone and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Andrew Abrahams , Arlen Anderson , Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James W. York,

It has been known for more than 300 years that the shape of an inelastic hanging cable, chain, or rope of uniform linear mass density is the graph of the hyperbolic cosine, up to scaling and shifting coordinates. But given two points at…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Christoph Börgers

A hyperbolic polygon is defined to be cyclic, horocyclic, or equidistant if its vertices lie on a metric circle, horocycle, or a component of the equidistant locus to a hyperbolic geodesic, respectively. Convex such $n$-gons are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Jason DeBlois

We consider non-scattering energies and transmission eigenvalues of compactly supported potentials in the hyperbolic spaces $\mathbb H^n$. We prove that in $\mathbb H^2$ a corner bounded by two hyperbolic lines intersecting at an angle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Emilia Blåsten , Esa V. Vesalainen

Crochet models of a hyperbolic plane is a popular educational tool as they help to visualize complicated objets in hyperbolic geometry. We present another way how to make crochet models when we view them as a part of a triangulated…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Maria Trnkova

We prove: "If $M$ is a compact hypersurface of the hyperbolic space, convex by horospheres and evolving by the volume preserving mean curvature flow, then it flows for all time, convexity by horospheres is preserved and the flow converges,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

We prove the isodiametric inequality in the spherical and in the hyperbolic space

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Károly J. Böröczky , Ádám Sagmeister

We consider wave equations in domains with time-dependent boundaries (moving obstacles) contained in a fixed cylinder for all time. We give sufficient conditions for the determination of the moving boundary from the Cauchy data on part of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Gregory Eskin , James Ralston

A new solution of a charged catenary is presented which allows to determine the static stability conditions where charged liquid bridges or charged hanging robes are possible.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-23 Klaus Morawetz

This article presents a mechanism for the coexistence of hyperbolic and non-hyperbolic dynamics arising in a neighbourhood of a Bykov cycle where trajectories turn in opposite directions near the two nodes --- we say that the nodes have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Isabel S. Labouriau , Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues

This article presents a new way to classify geodesics on a cone in the Euclidean 3-space. This proof is obtained considering our main result, which establishes the necessary and sufficient conditions that a curve in space must satisfy: to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Héctor Efrén Guerrero Mora

We construct the hyperbolic plane with its geodesic flow as the scale plus symmetry reduction of a three-body problem in the Euclidean plane. The potential is $-I/\Delta^2$ where $I$ is the triangle's moment of inertia and $\Delta$ its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Richard Montgomery

In Euclidean geometry the circle of Apollonious is the locus of points in the plane from which two collinear adjacent segments are perceived as having the same length. In Hyperbolic geometry, the analog of this locus is an algebraic curve…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Eugen J. Ionaşcu

We study how the length and the twisting parameter of a curve change along a Teichmuller geodesic. We then use our results to provide a formula for the Teichmuller distance between two hyperbolic metrics on a surface, in terms of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kasra Rafi