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Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. This paper addresses the Yamabe-type problem of finding a conformal scalar-flat metric on M, which has the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface. When the boundary is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Sergio Almaraz

In this article, we construct complete embedded constant mean curvature surfaces in $\mb{R}^3$ with freely prescribed genus and any number of ends greater than or equal to four. Heuristically, the surfaces are obtained by resolving finitely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Stephen. J. Kleene

We study singularities of surfaces which are given by Kenmotsu-type formula with prescribed unbounded mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Luciana F. Martins , Kentaro Saji , Keisuke Teramoto

The aim in these lectures is to study singularity formation, nonuniqueness, and topological change in motion by mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

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 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

Motivated by the work of Bryant on constant mean curvature (CMC) $1$-immersions of surfaces into the hyperbolic space H^3 and after the results of Tarantello (2023), we pursue a possible parametrization for the moduli space of (CMC)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Gabriella Tarantello , Stefano Trapani

In this study, we deal with the local structure of curves and surfaces immersed in a pseudo-isotropic space I_{p}^{3} that is a particular Cayley-Klein space. We provide the formulas of curvature, torsion and Frenet trihedron in order for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Muhittin Evren Aydin

We consider a CMC hypersurface with an isolated singular point at which the tangent cone is regular, and such that, in a neighbourhood of said point, the hypersurface is the boundary of a Caccioppoli set that minimises the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Costante Bellettini , Konstantinos Leskas

In this paper we investigate the flow of surfaces by a class of symmetric functions of the principal curvatures with a mixed volume constraint. We consider compact surfaces without boundary that can be written as a graph over a sphere. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 David Hartley

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

Finite topology self translating surfaces to mean curvature flow of surfaces constitute a key element for the analysis of Type II singularities from a compact surface, since they arise in a limit after suitable blow-up scalings around the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-19 Juan Dávila , Manuel del Pino , Xuan Hien Nguyen

We give a mathematical foundation for, and numerical demonstration of, the existence of mean curvature 1 surfaces of genus 1 with either two elliptic ends or two hyperbolic ends in de Sitter 3-space. An end of a mean curvature 1 surface is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shoichi Fujimori

In this paper, we define a new type of ruled surface called ruled surface by using the alternative frame of a base curve. Then, we study its differential geometric properties such as striction line, distribution parameter, fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Burak Sahiner

Initiated by the work of Uhlenbeck in late 1970s, we study questions about the existence, multiplicity and asymptotic behavior for minimal immersions of closed surface in some hyperbolic three-manifold, with prescribed conformal structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Zheng Huang , Marcello Lucia , Gabriella Tarantello

It has been shown in by Huang-Lucia-Tarantello [17] that, for given $\vert c \vert <1$, the moduli space of constant mean curvature (CMC) $c$-immersions of a closed orientable surface of genus $\mathfrak{g} \geq 2$ into a hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Gabriella Tarantello

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 give a different formulation for describing maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space, $\mathbb{L}^3$, using the identification of $\mathbb L^3$ with $\mathbb C\times \mathbb R$. Further we give a different proof for the singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Rukmini Dey , Pradip Kumar , Rahul Kumar Singh

We develop a degree theory for compact immersed hypersurfaces of prescribed $K$-curvature immersed in a compact, orientable Riemannian manifold, where $K$ is any elliptic curvature function. We apply this theory to count the (algebraic)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Harold Rosenberg , Graham Smith

A theorem about local in time existence of spacelike foliations with prescribed mean curvature in cosmological spacetimes will be proved. The time function of the foliation is geometrically defined and fixes the diffeomorphism invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Oliver Henkel