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This paper develops a technique for applying one-parameter prescribed mean curvature min-max theory in certain non-compact manifolds. We give two main applications. First, fix a dimension $3\le n+1 \le 7$ and consider a smooth function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Liam Mazurowski

We describe some topological structure in the set of all surfaces with finitely many singularities in the 3-sphere. As an application, we prove that every Riemannian 3-sphere of positive Ricci curvature contains, for every g, a genus g…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu

We prove that a minimal disc in a CAT(0) space is a local embedding away from a finite set of "branch points". On the way we establish several basic properties of minimal surfaces: monotonicity of area densities, density bounds, limit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Stephan Stadler

In this paper we continue the investigation of finding the max/min polygons which can be inscribed in a given triangle. Here we are concerned with equilateral triangles. This may seem uninteresting or benign at first, but there are some…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-01-22 James M Parks

We introduce nonlocal minimal surfaces on closed manifolds and establish a far-reaching Yau-type result: in every closed, $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold we construct infinitely many nonlocal $s$-minimal surfaces. We prove that, when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Michele Caselli , Enric Florit-Simon , Joaquim Serra

We consider surfaces embedded in a 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifold and the problem of the finiteness of the induced distance (i.e., the infimum of the length of horizontal curves that belong to the surface). Recently it has been proved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Eugenio Bellini , Ugo Boscain

We present the min-max construction of critical points of the area using penalization arguments. Precisely, for any immersion of a closed surface $\Sigma$ into a given closed manifold, we add to the area Lagrangian a term equal to the $L^q$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Tristan Rivière

We give a quick tour through many of the classical results in the field of minimal submanifolds, starting at the definition. The field of minimal submanifolds remains extremely active and has very recently seen major developments that have…

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

The main results of the paper are Proposition 3 and 4 which provide an effective way to construct minimal hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. We demonstrate our technique by several new examples. This note is English translation of an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Vladimir V. Sergienko , Vladimir G. Tkachev

We study isometric embeddings of some solutions of the Einstein equations with suffciently high symmetries into a flat ambient space. We briefly describe a method for constructing surfaces with a given symmetry. We discuss all minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-21 S. A. Paston , A. A. Sheykin

We construct embedded minimal surfaces which are $n$-periodic in $\mathbb{R}^n$. They are new for codimension $n-2\ge 2$. We start with a Jordan curve of edges of the $n$-dimensional cube. It bounds a Plateau minimal disk which Schwarz…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann , Susanne Kürsten

Piecewise Euclidean structures (identified solid Euclidean polyhedra) on topological 3-dimensional manifolds and pseudo-manifolds are constructed so that they admit pseudo-foliations, a generalized type of foliation. The construction of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Simon P Morgan

Minimal surfaces in closed 3-manifolds are classically constructed via the Almgren-Pitts approach. The Allen-Cahn approximation has proved to be a powerful alternative, and Chodosh and Mantoulidis (in Ann. Math. 2020) used it to give a new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Hardy Chan , Serena Dipierro , Joaquim Serra , Enrico Valdinoci

In this thesis, we present various contributions to the study of free boundary minimal surfaces. After introducing some basic tools and discussing some delicate aspects related to the definition of Morse index when allowing for a contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Giada Franz

We give a simple combinatoric proof of an exponential upper bound on the number of distinct 3-manifolds that can be constructed by successively identifying nearest neighbour pairs of triangles in the boundary of a simplicial 3-ball and show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Bergfinnur Durhuus , Thordur Jonsson

In this paper we construct complete simply connected minimal surfaces with a prescribed coordinate function. Moreover, we prove that these surfaces are dense in the space of all minimal surfaces with this coordinate function (with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-08-19 Antonio Alarcon , Isabel Fernandez

We show the existence of various families of properly embedded singly periodic minimal surfaces in R^3 with finite arbitrary genus and Scherk type ends in the quotient. The proof of our results is based on the gluing of small perturbations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-08 Laurent Hauswirth , Filippo Morabito , Magdalena Rodriguez

We prove a compactness result for minimal hypersurfaces with bounded index and volume, which can be thought of as an extension of the compactness theorem of Choi-Schoen (Invent. Math. 1985) to higher dimensions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Ben Sharp

We discover some very general configuration results for constructing area-minimizing cones. In particular, given any closed minimal submanifold in some Euclidean sphere, every cone over the minimal product of sufficiently many copies of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yongsheng Zhang

We prove that in a closed manifold of dimension between 3 and 7 with a bumpy metric, the min-max minimal hypersurfaces associated with the volume spectrum introduced by Gromov, Guth, Marques-Neves, are two-sided and have multiplicity one.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Xin Zhou