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Let $M$ be a compact 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and a nonempty boundary $\partial M$. Fraser and Li \cite{Fraser&Li} established a compactness theorem for the space of compact, properly embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Pak Tung Ho , Juncheol Pyo , Keomkyo Seo

We prove the validity of an inequality involving a mean of the area and the length of the boundary of immersed disks whose boundaries are homotopically non-trivial curves in an oriented compact manifold which possesses convex mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Ezequiel Barbosa , Franciele Conrado

We employ equivariant variational methods to construct new examples of nonplanar free boundary minimal discs in ellipsoids. We also prove that every ellipsoid contains at least three distinct embedded free boundary minimal annuli with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Mario B. Schulz

We construct a countable collection of one-parameter families of non-rotational minimal annuli with free boundary in geodesic balls of hyperbolic 3-space. Every surface within a given family shares a common prismatic symmetry group, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Alberto Cerezo

For almost all Riemannian metrics (in the $C^\infty$ Baire sense) on a compact manifold with boundary $(M^{n+1},\partial M)$, $3\leq (n + 1)\leq 7$, we prove that, for any open subset $V$ of $\partial M$, there exists a compact, properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Zhichao Wang

We show for a non homogeneous boundary value problem for the Ricci flow on the disk that when the initial metric has positive curvature and the boundary is convex then the initial metric is deformed, via the normalized flow and along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Jean C. Cortissoz , Alexander Murcia

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Alessandro Carlotto

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

We establish a general min-max type theorem that produces minimal surfaces with prescribed genus in 3-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. An important intermediate step is to show that, in a generic metric with positive Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

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

In 1960s, Almgren initiated a program to find minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds using min-max method. This program was largely advanced by Pitts and Schoen-Simon in 1980s when the manifold has no boundary. In this paper, we finish…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Martin Li , Xin Zhou

The topology and symmetry group of a free boundary minimal surface in the three-dimensional Euclidean unit ball do not determine the surface uniquely. We provide pairs of non-isometric free boundary minimal surfaces having any sufficiently…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Alessandro Carlotto , Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

We prove an enumerative min-max theorem that relates the number of genus g minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature to topological properties of the set of embedded surfaces of genus $\leq g$, possibly with finitely many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

We study unknottedness for free boundary minimal surfaces in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary, and for self-shrinkers in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. For doing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Sabine Chu , Giada Franz

In this paper we give a complete description about normal monohedral tilings of a convex disc with smooth boundary where we have at most three topological discs as tiles. This result is a far-reaching generalization of the results of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Kinga Nagy , Viktor Vigh

We prove that in the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^4$, there is no complete two-sided stable free boundary immersion. The result follows from a rigidity theorem of complete free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in complete 4-manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Yujie Wu

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

We prove the multiplicity one theorem for min-max free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds with boundary of dimension between 3 and 7 for generic metrics. To approach this, we develop existence and regularity theory for free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Ao Sun , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

Let $(M, \partial M)$ be a compact 3-manifold with boundary, which admits a convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. We consider the hyperbolic metrics on $M$ such that the boundary is smooth and strictly convex. We show that the induced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jean-Marc Schlenker

We construct a sequence of compact embedded minimal disks in a ball in Euclidean 3-space, whose boundaries lie in the boundary of the ball, such that the curvature blows up only at a prescribed discrete (and hence, finite) set of points on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian Dean