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Static equilibrium configurations of continua supported by surface tension are given by constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces which are critical points of a variational problem to extremize the area while keeping the volume fixed. CMC…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Miyuki Koiso , Umpei Miyamoto

Consider the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ endowed with a canonical semi-symmetric non-metric connection determined by a vector field $\mathsf{C}\in\mathfrak{X}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. We study surfaces when the sectional curvature with respect to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Muhittin Evren Aydin , Rafael López , Adela Mihai

Some results about the geodesic boundary of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{H}^2\times \mathbb{R}$ are generalized for surfaces of constant mean curvature surfaces $H$, with $0\le H\le 1/2$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Felix Nieto , Miriam Telichevesky

We announce the classification of complete, almost embedded surfaces of constant mean curvature, with three ends and genus zero: they are classified by triples of points on the sphere whose distances are the asymptotic necksizes of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann , Robert B. Kusner , John M. Sullivan

We present a collection of easily stated open problems in the theory of compact constant mean curvature surfaces with boundary. We also survey the current status of answering them.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Rafael López

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

In this paper, we consider compact free boundary constant mean curvature surfaces immersed in a mean convex body of the Euclidean space or in the unit sphere. We prove that the Morse index is bounded from below by a linear function of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Marcos P. Cavalcante , Darlan F. de Oliveira

In this paper, we prove gap results for constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces. Firstly, we find a natural inequality for CMC surfaces which imply convexity for distance function. We then show that if $\Sigma$ is a complete, properly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Ezequiel Barbosa , Marcos P. Cavalcante , Edno Pereira

A discrete conformality for polyhedral metrics on surfaces is introduced in this paper which generalizes earlier work on the subject. It is shown that each polyhedral metric on a surface is discrete conformal to a constant curvature…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

Weakly stable constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces are stable critical points of the area functional with respect to volume preserving deformations. We establish a pointwise curvature estimate (in the non-singular dimensions) and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Costante Bellettini , Otis Chodosh , Neshan Wickramasekera

It is shown that the equation which describes constant mean curvature surface via the generalized Weierstrass-Enneper inducing has Hamiltonian form. Its simplest finite-dimensional reduction has two degrees of freedom, integrable and its…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2009-10-28 B. G. Konopelchenko , I. A. Taimanov

The present work constitutes the third installment in a series of investigations devoted to discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary. In our preceding works \cite{X-Z DCS1, X-Z DCS2}, we established, respectively, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

The notion of Nonlocal Mean Curvature (NMC) appears recently in the mathematics literature. It is an extrinsic geometric quantity that is invariant under global reparameterization of a surface and provide a natural extension of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall

We consider surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector (pmc surfaces) in $\mathbb{C}P^n\times\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{C}H^n\times\mathbb{R}$, and, more generally, in cosymplectic space forms. We introduce a holomorphic quadratic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-23 Dorel Fetcu , Harold Rosenberg

This paper explains the construction of all hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature -- cmc -- and exactly two principal curvatures on any space form endowed with a semi-riemannian metric. Here we will consider riemannian hypersurfaces as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Oscar Perdomo

We investigate the dressing action on surfaces of constant mean curvature (CMC surfaces) in Euclidean space. In particluar, we show that for CMC surfaces with umbilics the isotropy group under dressing is always trivial. This result is…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Josef Dorfmeister , Guido Haak

We consider a general theory of curvatures of discrete surfaces equipped with edgewise parallel Gauss images, and where mean and Gaussian curvatures of faces are derived from the faces' areas and mixed areas. Remarkably these notions are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Alexander I. Bobenko , Helmut Pottmann , Johannes Wallner

In this paper we prove that a properly embedded constant mean curvature surface in $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ which has finite topology and stays at a finite distance from a vertical geodesic line is invariant by rotation around a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Laurent Mazet

As first noted in Korevaar, Kusner and Solomon ("KKS"), constant mean curvature implies a homological conservation law for hypersurfaces in ambient spaces with Killing fields.In Theorem 3.5 here, we generalize that law by relaxing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nick Edelen , Bruce Solomon

Transformations between different analytic descriptions of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces are established. In particular, it is demonstrated that the system \[ \begin{split} &\partial \psi_{1} = (|\psi_{1}|^{2} + |\psi_{2}|^{2})…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Eugene V. Ferapontov , Alfred M. Grundland