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The existence of embedded minimal surfaces in non-compact 3-manifolds remains a largely unresolved and challenging problem in geometry. In this paper, we address several open cases regarding the existence of finite-area, embedded, complete,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Baris Coskunuzer , Zheng Huang , Ben Lowe , Franco Vargas Pallete

Motivated by classical theorems on minimal surface theory in compact hyperbolic three-manifolds, we investigate the questions of existence and deformations for least area minimal surfaces in complete noncompact hyperbolic three-manifold of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Zheng Huang , Biao Wang

For a smooth immersion $f$ from the punctured disk $D\backslash\{0\}$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ extendable continuously at the puncture, if its mean curvature is square integrable and the measure of $f(D)\cap B_{r_k}=o(r_k)$ for a sequence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Jingyi Chen , Yuxiang Li

We prove that for any open Riemann surface $N,$ natural number $n\geq 3,$ non-constant harmonic map $h:N\to \mathbb{R}^{n-2}$ and holomorphic 2-form $H$ on $N,$ there exists a weakly complete harmonic map $X=(X_j)_{j=1,\ldots,n}:N \to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-23 Antonio Alarcon , Isabel Fernandez , Francisco J. Lopez

The aim of this paper is to give an upper bound for the intrinsic diameter of a surface with boundary immersed in a conformally flat three dimensional Riemannian manifold in terms of the integral of the mean curvature and of the length of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Marco Flaim , Christian Scharrer

We study complete finite topology immersed surfaces $\Sigma$ in complete Riemannian $3$-manifolds $N$ with sectional curvature $K_N\leq -a^2\leq 0$, such that the absolute mean curvature function of $\Sigma$ is bounded from above by $a$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-01 William H. Meeks , Álvaro K. Ramos

We consider properly immersed finite topology minimal surfaces S in complete finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds N, and in M x S(1), where M is a complete hyperbolic surface of finite area. We prove S has finite total curvature equal to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Pascal Collin , Laurent Hauswirth , Harold Rosenberg

We prove that closed surfaces of all topological types, except for the non-orientable odd-genus ones, can be minimally embedded in the Riemannian product of a sphere and a circle of arbitrary radius. We illustrate it by obtaining some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-20 José M. Manzano , Julia Plehnert , Francisco Torralbo

We show that a minimal disk satisfying the free boundary condition in a constant curvature ball of any dimension is totally geodesic. We weaken the condition to parallel mean curvature vector in which case we show that the disk lies in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Ailana Fraser , Richard Schoen

We obtain a sharp estimate on the norm of the differential of a harmonic map from the unit disc $\mathbb D$ in $\mathbb C$ into the unit ball $\mathbb B^n$ in $\mathbb R^n$, $n\ge 2$, at any point where the map is conformal. In dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Franc Forstneric , David Kalaj

Let $F$ be a proper essential immersed surface in a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with boundary disjoint from a torus boundary component $T$ of $M$. Let $\alpha$ be the set of coannular slopes of $F$ on $T$. The main theorem of the paper shows…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ying-Qing Wu

Minimal surfaces with uniform curvature (or area) bounds have been well understood and the regularity theory is complete, yet essentially nothing was known without such bounds. We discuss here the theory of embedded (i.e., without…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We prove that on every compact Riemann surface $M$ there is a Cantor set $C \subset M$ such that $M \setminus C$ admits a proper conformal constant mean curvature one ($\mathrm{CMC\text{-}1}$) immersion into hyperbolic $3$-space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jorge Hidalgo

An approximation theorem for minimal surfaces by complete minimal surfaces of finite total curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is obtained. This Mergelyan type result can be extended to the family of complete minimal surfaces of weak finite total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francisco J. Lopez

Examples of complete minimal surfaces properly embedded in H^2 x R have been extensively studied and the literature contains a plethora of nontrivial ones. In this paper we construct a large class of examples of complete minimal surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-27 Magdalena Rodriguez , Giuseppe Tinaglia

The spinor representation is developed for conformal immersions of Riemann surfaces into space. We adapt the approach of Dennis Sullivan, which treats a spin structure on a Riemann surface M as a complex line bundle S whose square is the…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Rob Kusner , Nick Schmitt

We give examples of proper minimal immersions in Euclidean space with very rapid area growth. The first is a proper embedding into $\bf{R}^4$ that yields a stable minimal surface, while the second is a proper immersion into $\bf{R}^3$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tobias Holck Colding , Francisco Martín , William P. Minicozzi

Let N be a complete, homogeneously regular Riemannian manifold of dimension greater than 2 and let M be a compact submanifold of N. Let $\Sigma$ be a compact orientable surface with boundary. We show that for any continuous $f: (\Sigma,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Jingyi Chen , Ailana Fraser , Chao Pang

A very interesting problem in the classical theory of minimal surfaces consists of the classification of such surfaces under some geometrical and topological constraints. In this short paper, we give a brief summary of the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Magdalena Rodriguez

We show that for any extreme curve in a 3-manifold M, there exist a canonical mean convex hull containing all least area disks spanning the curve. Similar result is true for asymptotic case in hyperbolic 3-space such that for any asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baris Coskunuzer