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A triangulated piecewise-linear minimal surface in Euclidean 3-space defined using a variational characterization is critical for area amongst all continuous piecewise-linear variations with compact support that preserve the simplicial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Wayne Rossman

The study of the relation between the Weierstrass inducing formulae for constant mean curvature surfaces and the completely integrable euclidean nonlinear sigma-model suggests a connection among integrable sigma -models in a background and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Martina , Kur. Myrzakul , R. Myrzakulov

We study a new discretization of the Gaussian curvature for polyhedral surfaces. This discrete Gaussian curvature is defined on each conical singularity of a polyhedral surface as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of the Voronoi…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská

Discrete forms of the mean and directed curvature are constructed on piecewise flat manifolds, providing local curvature approximations for smooth manifolds embedded in both Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. The resulting expressions take…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Rory Conboye

We discuss a notion of discrete conformal equivalence for decorated piecewise euclidean surfaces (PE-surface), that is, PE-surfaces with a choice of circle about each vertex. It is closely related to inversive distance and hyperideal circle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Alexander I. Bobenko , Carl O. R. Lutz

Discrete normal surfaces are normal surfaces whose intersection with each tetrahedron of a triangulation has at most one component. They are also natural Poincar\'e duals to 1-cocycles with $\ZZ/2\ZZ$-coefficients. For a fixed cohomology…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-11-07 Ed Swartz

Several classes of solutions of the generalized Weierstrass system, which induces constant mean curvature surfaces into four-dimensional Euclidean space are constructed. A gauge transformation allows us to simplify the system considered and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bracken , A. M. Grundland

We prove that singular minimal surfaces with constant Gauss curvature are planes, spheres and cylindrical surfaces. We also classify all singular minimal surfaces with a constant principal curvature and singular minimal surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Rafael López

In the work \cite{Laredo} the author shows that every hypersurface in Euclidean space is locally associated to the unit sphere by a sphere congruence, whose radius function $R$ is a geometric invariant of hypersurface. In this paper we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Laredo Rennan Pereira Santos , Armando Mauro Vasquez Corro

We investigate discrete spin transformations, a geometric framework to manipulate surface meshes by controlling mean curvature. Applications include surface fairing -- flowing a mesh onto say, a reference sphere -- and mesh extrusion --…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Loic Le Folgoc , Daniel C. Castro , Jeremy Tan , Bishesh Khanal , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ian Walker , Amir Alansary , Ben Glocker

We prove that the Gauss curvature and the curvature of the normal connection of any minimal surface in the four dimensional Euclidean space satisfy an inequality, which generates two classes of minimal surfaces: minimal surfaces of general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-23 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

A discretisation of differential geometry using the Whitney forms of algebraic topology is consistently extended via the introduction of a pairing on the space of chains. This pairing of chains enables us to give a definition of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vivien de Beauce , Siddhartha Sen

The main objective of this paper is to derive the Enneper-Weierstrass representation of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{E}^3$ using the soliton surface approach. We exploit the Bryant-type representation of conformally parametrized surfaces in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 A Doliwa , A M Grundland

We show how permutability of transforms of smooth surfaces with particular characteristics leads to discrete surfaces with discrete analogues of the same characteristics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Joseph Cho , Mason Pember , Wayne Rossman

We study a generalization of constant Gauss curvature -1 surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, based on Lorentzian harmonic maps, that we call pseudospherical frontals. We analyze the singularities of these surfaces, dividing them into those of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-05 David Brander

This paper develops a discrete theory of real Riemann surfaces based on quadrilateral cellular decompositions (quad-graphs) and a linear discretization of the Cauchy-Riemann equations. We construct a discrete analogue of an antiholomorphic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Johanna Düntsch , Felix Günther

We prove a general fusion theorem for complete orientable minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with finite total curvature. As a consequence, complete orientable minimal surfaces of weak finite total curvature with exotic geometry are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-16 Francisco J. Lopez

In this paper we investigate $m$-dimensional complete minimal submanifolds in Euclidean spheres with index of relative nullity at least $m-2$ at any point. These are austere submanifolds in the sense of Harvey and Lawson \cite{harvey} and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-10 M. Dajczer , Th. Kasioumis , A. Savas-Halilaj , Th. Vlachos

Using an integrable discrete Dirac operator, we construct a discrete version of the Weierstrass representation of time-like surfaces parametrized along isotropic directions in $R^{2,1}$, $R^{3,1}$ and $R^{2,2}$. The corresponding discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Dmitry Zakharov

Weierstrass representation is a classical parameterization of minimal surfaces. However, two functions should be specified to construct the parametric form in Weierestrass representation. In this paper, we propose an explicit parametric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2010-08-04 Gang Xu , Guozhao Wang