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A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

Invariants underlying shape inference are elusive: a variety of shapes can give rise to the same image, and a variety of images can be rendered from the same shape. The occluding contour is a rare exception: it has both image salience, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Benjamin Kunsberg , Steven W. Zucker

We embark in a program of studying the problem of better approximating surfaces by triangulations(triangular meshes) by considering the approximating triangulations as finite metric spaces and the target smooth surface as their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emil Saucan

In this note we discuss the geometry of Riemannian surfaces having a discrete set of singular points. We assume the conformal structure extends through the singularities and the curvature is integrable. Such points are called \emph{simple…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Marc Troyanov

We survey the distributional properties of progressively dilating sets under projection by covering maps, focusing on manifolds of constant sectional curvature. In the Euclidean case, we review previously known results and formulate some…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Emilio Corso

We study the existence problem for achronal hypersurfaces $M \hookrightarrow \overline{M}$ in a globally hyperbolic spacetime, whose mean curvature is a prescribed -- possibly singular -- source, and whose boundary is a given smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Lorenzo Maniscalco , Luciano Mari

We adopt a measure-theoretic perspective on the Riemannian approximation scheme proving a sub-Riemannian Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces in 3D contact manifolds. We show that the zero-order term in the limit is a singular measure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Davide Barilari , Eugenio Bellini , Andrea Pinamonti

Consider a fibred compact K\"ahler manifold X endowed with a relatively ample line bundle, such that each fibre admits a constant scalar curvature K\"ahler metric and has discrete automorphism group. Assuming the base of the fibration…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Ruadhaí Dervan , Lars Martin Sektnan

The present paper describes a way to relate Martin boundaries on spaces of varying topology. This enables us to approach some detailed inductive analysis of the eigenfunctions of conformal Laplacians on minimal hypersurfaces near their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-08-15 Joachim Lohkamp

We show that the singularities of spacelike maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space generically consist of cuspidal edges, swallowtails and cuspidal cross caps. The same result holds for spacelike mean curvature one surfaces in de…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Shoichi Fujimori , Kentaro Saji , Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

In this article, we first show that for all compact Riemannian manifolds with non-empty smooth boundary and dimension at least 3, there exists a metric, pointwise conformal to the original metric, with constant scalar curvature in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Jie Xu

We consider complete spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the open region of de Sitter space known as the steady state space. We prove that if the hypersurface is bounded away from the infinity of the ambient space, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Alma L. Albujer , Luis J. Alias

We prove that if $X:M^n\to\mathbb{H}^n\times \mathbb{R}$, $n\geq 3$, is a an orientable, complete immersion with finite strong total curvature, then $X$ is proper and $M$ is diffeomorphic to a compact manifold $\bar M$ minus a finite number…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Maria Fernanda Elbert , Barbara Nelli

We introduce the notion of curvature parameters for singular plane curves with finite multiplicities and define the notion of curvatures for them. We then provide criteria to determine their singularity types for A-simple singularities. As…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Toshizumi Fukui , Saiki Hoshino

We introduce a novel definition of curvature for hypergraphs, a natural generalization of graphs, by introducing a multi-marginal optimal transport problem for a naturally defined random walk on the hypergraph. This curvature, termed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Shahab Asoodeh , Tingran Gao , James Evans

The dynamics of an M-dimensional extended object whose M+1 dimensional world volume in M+2 dimensional space-time has vanishing mean curvature is formulated in term of geometrical variables (the first and second fundamental form of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Jens Hoppe

Motivated by the theory of isoparametric hypersurfaces, we study submanifolds whose tubular hypersurfaces have some constant "higher order mean curvatures". Here a $k$-th order mean curvature $Q_k$ ($k\geq1$) of a hypersurface $M^n$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-03 Jianquan Ge

We study the global topological structure and smoothness of the boundaries of $\varepsilon$-neighbourhoods $E_\varepsilon = \{x \in \mathbb{R}^2 \, : \, \textrm{dist}(x, E) \leq \varepsilon \}$ of planar sets $E \subset \mathbb{R}^2$. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Jeroen S. W. Lamb , Martin Rasmussen , Kalle Timperi

In this paper we introduce a class of polygonal complexes for which we can define a notion of sectional combinatorial curvature. These complexes can be viewed as generalizations of 2-dimensional Euclidean and hyperbolic buildings. We focus…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Matthias Keller , Norbert Peyerimhoff , Felix Pogorzelski

Consider a complete Riemannian manifold $M^n$ and let $\Sigma^n$ be an orientable hypersurface of the product manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$ endowed with its standard product metric $\langle \,,\, \rangle.$ Let $\nabla\xi$ denote the gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Ronaldo F. de Lima , Pedro Roitman