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A spherical polyhedron surface is a triangulated surface obtained by isometric gluing of spherical triangles. For instance, the boundary of a generic convex polytope in the 3-sphere is a spherical polyhedron surface. This paper investigates…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Feng Luo

In this paper, we consider a Minkowski inequality for a domain supported on any umbilical hypersurface with free boundary in space forms. We generalize the main result in \cite{Xia} into free boundary case and obtain a free boundary version…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Jinyu Guo

A polygonal surface in the pseudo-hyperbolic space H^(2,n) is a complete maximal surface bounded by a lightlike polygon in the Einstein universe Ein^(1,n) with finitely many vertices. In this article, we give several characterizations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Alex Moriani

The classical Minkowski inequality implies that the volume of a bounded convex domain is controlled from above by the integral of the mean curvature of its boundary. In this note, we establish an analogous inequality without the convexity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

Classical H.Minkowski theorems on existence and uniqueness of convex polyhedra with prescribed directions and areas of faces as well as the well-known generalization of H.Minkowski uniqueness theorem due to A.D.Alexandrov are extended to a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victor Alexandrov

The purpose of this paper is to derive volume and other geometric information for three-dimensional complete manifolds with positive scalar curvature. In the case that the Ricci curvature is nonnegative, it is shown that the volume of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

We consider the problem of wrapping three-dimensional solid bodies with a given planar sheet of paper, where the paper may be folded or wrinkled but not stretched or torn. We propose a conjecture characterising the maximumvolume solid…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-06 R Nandakumar

This paper is the second in a series where we attempt to give a complete description of the space of all embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a fixed (but arbitrary) closed 3-manifold. The key for understanding such surfaces is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We consider mean-convex Alexandrov embedded surfaces in the round unit 3-sphere, and show under which conditions it is possible to continuously deform these preserving mean-convex Alexandrov embeddedness.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Laurent Hauswirth , Martin Kilian , Martin Ulrich Schmidt

For a surface in 3-sphere, by identifying the conformal round 3-sphere as the projectivized positive light cone in Minkowski 5-spacetime, we use the conformal Gauss map and the conformal transform to construct the associate homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Jie Qing , Changping Wang , Jingyang Zhong

A multibranched surface is a 2-dimensional polyhedron without vertices. We introduce moves for multibranched surfaces embedded in a 3-manifold, which connect any two multibranched surfaces with the same regular neighborhoods in finitely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Kai Ishihara , Yuya Koda , Makoto Ozawa , Koya Shimokawa

An unfolding of a polyhedron is produced by cutting the surface and flattening to a single, connected, planar piece without overlap (except possibly at boundary points). It is a long unsolved problem to determine whether every polyhedron…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mirela Damian , Robin Flatland , Joseph O'Rourke

Can one build an arbitrary polytope from any polytope inside by iteratively stacking pyramids onto facets, without losing the convexity throughout the process? We prove that this is indeed possible for (i) 3-polytopes, (ii) 4-polytopes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Joseph Gubeladze

In this paper we study lightlike surfaces of Minkowski 3- space such that they have degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections. We first show that every lightlike surface of Minkowski $3-$ space has degenerate planar normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Feyza Esra Erdogan , Bayram Sahin , Rifat Gunes

In this paper we consider Riemannian manifolds of dimension at least $3$, with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean Volume Growth. For every open bounded subset with smooth boundary we establish the validity of an optimal Minkowski…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Luca Benatti , Mattia Fogagnolo , Lorenzo Mazzieri

We prove a sharp inequality for hypersurfaces in the n-dimensional Anti-deSitter-Schwarzschild manifold for general n greater or equal to 3. This inequality generalizes the classical Minkowski inequality for surfaces in the three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Simon Brendle , Pei-Ken Hung , Mu-Tao Wang

We are interested in the naive problem whether we can move a solid object in a solid box or not. We restrict move to rotation. In the case we can, the centre and the ``direction'' of rotation may be restricted. Simplifying, we consider…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Shuzo Izumi

We show the existence of families of periodic polyhedra in spaces of constant curvature whose fundamental domains can be obtained by attaching prisms and antiprisms to Archimedean solids. These polyhedra have constant discrete curvature and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Christina Duffield , Daniel Freese , William Holt , Matthias Weber , Ramazan Yol

We introduce a new combinatorial abstraction for the graphs of polyhedra. The new abstraction is a flexible framework defined by combinatorial properties, with each collection of properties taken providing a variant for studying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Edward D. Kim

We construct some example of a closed nondegenerate nonflexible polyhedron $P$ in Euclidean 3-space that is the limit of a sequence of nondegenerate flexible polyhedra each of which is combinatorially equivalent to $P$. This implies that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Victor Alexandrov