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Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian $3$-manifold with sectional curvatures between $0$ and $1$. A minimal $2$-sphere immersed in $M$ has area at least $4\pi$. If an embedded minimal sphere has area $4\pi$, then $M$ is isometric to the unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Laurent Mazet , Harold Rosenberg

In the present paper, we propose a new discrete surface theory on 3-valent embedded graphs in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space which are not necessarily discretization or approximation of smooth surfaces. The Gauss curvature and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Motoko Kotani , Hisashi Naito , Toshiaki Omori

Friedman and Morgan made the "speculation" that deformation equivalence and diffeomorphism should coincide for algebraic surfaces. Counterexamples, for the hitherto open case of surfaces of general type, have been given in the last years by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Catanese

By work of Uhlenbeck, the largest principal curvature of any least area fiber of a hyperbolic $3$-manifold fibering over the circle is bounded below by one. We give a short argument to show that, along certain families of fibered hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-27 James Farre , Franco Vargas Pallete

We give a survey on the development of the study of the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. Part of this survey is based on the introductory part of the doctoral dissertation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Esko Heinonen

The conformal boundary of a hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$ is a union of Riemann surfaces. If any of these Riemann surfaces has a nontrivial Teichm\"uller space, then the hyperbolic metric of $M$ can be deformed quasi-isometrically. These…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Alex Elzenaar

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 study the strong maximum principle for horizontal (p-) mean curvature operator and p-(sub)laplacian operator on subriemannian manifolds including, in particular, Heisenberg groups and Heisenberg cylinders. Under a certain Hormander type…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Jih-Hsin Cheng , Hung-Lin Chiu , Jenn-Fang Hwang , Paul Yang

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

In this paper, we study self-expanding solutions for mean curvature flows and their relationship to minimal cones in Euclidean space. In [18], Ilmanen proved the existence of self-expanding hypersurfaces with prescribed tangent cones at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Qi Ding

The fact that minimal surfaces in the four-dimensional Euclidean space admit natural parameters implies that any minimal surface is determined uniquely up to a motion by two curvature functions, satisfying a system of two PDE's (the system…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Georgi Ganchev , Krasimir Kanchev

Concerning the problem of classifying complete submanifolds of Euclidean space with codimension two admitting genuine isometric deformations, until now the only known examples with the maximal possible rank four are the real Kaehler minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-22 M. Dajczer , Th. Vlachos

The authors Balogh-Tyson-Vecchi in arXiv:1604.00180 utilize the Riemannian approximations scheme $(\mathbb H^1,<,>_L)$, in the Heisenberg group, introduced by Gromov, to calculate the limits of Gaussian and normal curvatures defined on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Jose Veloso

We study the constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space whose asymptotic boundaries are closed codimension-1 submanifolds in sphere at infinity. We consider CMC hypersurfaces as generalizations of minimal hypersurfaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baris Coskunuzer

Constant Mean Curvature (CMC) 1-immersions of surfaces into hyperbolic 3-manifolds are natural and yet rather curious objects in hyperbolic geometry with interesting applications. Firstly, Bryant revealed surprising relations between (CMC)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Gabriella Tarantello , Stefano Trapani

Given $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ and $\Phi\in C^1(\mathbb{S}^2)$, we study immersed oriented surfaces $\Sigma$ in the Euclidean 3-space $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose mean curvature $H$ and Gauss curvature $K$ satisfy $2aH+bK=\Phi(N)$, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Antonio Bueno , Irene Ortiz

In this paper, we classify completely hyperbolic 3-manifolds corresponding to geometric limits of Kleinian surface groups isomorphic to $\pi_1(S)$ for a finite-type hyperbolic surface $S$. In the first of the three main theorems, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Ken'ichi Ohshika , Teruhiko Soma

A classical theorem, mainly due to Aleksandrov and Pogorelov, states that any Riemannian metric on $S^2$ with curvature $K>-1$ is induced on a unique convex surface in $H^3$. A similar result holds with the induced metric replaced by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jean-Marc Schlenker

We prove a version of the strong half-space theorem between the classes of recurrent minimal surfaces and complete minimal surfaces with bounded curvature of $\mathbb{R}^{3}_{\raisepunct{.}}$ We also show that any minimal hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-06 G. Pacelli Bessa , Luquesio P. Jorge , Leandro Pessoa

We generalize the following result of White: Suppose $N$ is a compact, strictly convex domain in $\RR^3$ with smooth boundary. Let $\Sigma$ be a compact 2-manifold with boundary. Then a generic smooth curve $\Gamma\cong \partial\Sigma$ in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-18 David Hoffman , Brian White