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We prove a monotonicity identity for compact surfaces with free boundaries inside the boundary of unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$ that have square integrable mean curvature. As one consequence we obtain a Li-Yau type inequality in this setting,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Alexander Volkmann

We address the surface tension-driven dynamics of porous media in nearly saturated pore-space solutions. We linearize this dynamics in the reaction-limited regime near its fixed points -- surfaces of constant mean curvature (CMC surfaces).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benny Davidovitch , Deniz Ertas , Thomas C. Halsey

In this survey we go through some of the recent results about the regularity of vectorial free boundary problems of Bernoulli type and free boundary systems. The aim is to illustrate the general methodologies as well as to outline a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Giorgio Tortone , Bozhidar Velichkov

Author reduces the Minkowski problem to the problem of construction the G-deformations preserving the product of principal curvatures for every point of surface in Riemannian space. G-deformation transfers every normal vector of surface in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-30 Andrei I. Bodrenko

We use PDE methods as developed for the Liouville equation to study the existence of conformal metrics with prescribed singularities on surfaces with boundary, the boundary condition being constant geodesic curvature. Our first result shows…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-20 Juergen Jost , Guofang Wang , Chunqin Zhou

The Han-Li conjecture states that: Let $(M,g_0)$ be an $n$-dimensional $(n\geq 3)$ smooth compact Riemannian manifold with boundary having positive (generalized) Yamabe constant and $c$ be any real number, then there exists a conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Xuezhang Chen , Yuping Ruan , Liming Sun

In this paper, we introduce a new constrained mean curvature type flow for capillary boundary hypersurfaces in space forms. We show the flow exists for all time and converges globally to a spherical cap. Moreover, the flow preserves the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

We develop a global theory for complete hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. This theory extends the usual one of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Antonio Bueno , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

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 prove the rigidity of rectifiable boundaries with constant distributional mean curvature in the Brendle class of warped product manifolds (which includes important models in General Relativity, like the deSitter--Schwarzschild and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Francesco Maggi , Mario Santilli

We study the set of curvature functions which a given compact manifold with boundary can possess. First, we prove that the sign demanded by the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem is a necessary and sufficient condition for a given function to be the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos , Feliciano Vitório

The theory of complete surfaces of (nonzero) constant mean curvature in $\RR^3$ has progressed markedly in the last decade. This paper surveys a number of these developments in the setting of Alexandrov embedded surfaces; the focus is on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rafe Mazzeo

We study the problem of deforming a Riemannian metric to a conformal one with nonzero constant scalar curvature and nonzero constant boundary mean curvature on a compact manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$. We prove the existence of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Xuezhang Chen , Liming Sun

We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Adrian Butscher , Rafe Mazzeo

We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $R^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Wolfgang Maurer

In this article, we study the geometry of compact quasi-Einstein manifolds with boundary. We establish sharp boundary estimates for compact quasi-Einstein manifolds with boundary that improve some previous results. Moreover, we obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Rafael Diógenes , Tiago Gadelha , Ernani Ribeiro

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flow of compact surfaces in $4$-dimensional space forms. We prove the convergence theorems for the mean curvature flow under certain pinching conditions involving the normal curvature, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Dong Pu , Jingjing Su , Hongwei Xu

Given a smooth compact manifold with boundary, we study variational properties of the volume functional and of the area functional of the boundary, restricted to the space of the Riemannian metrics with prescribed curvature. We obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos

We introduce a compactification of the space of simple positive divisors on a Riemann surface, as well as a compactification of the universal family of punctured surfaces above this space. These are real manifolds with corners. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Rafe Mazzeo , Xuwen Zhu

We study a generalized mean curvature flow involving a positive power of the mean curvature and a driving force. In this paper, we first construct all kinds of radially symmetric translating solutions, and then select one of them to satisfy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Bendong Lou , Lixia Yuan