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We propose a notion of scalar curvature lower bounds in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold endowed with a $C^0$ metric based on the monotonicity of the Hawking mass along the inverse mean curvature flow. We present a stability theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Mattia Fogagnolo , Giorgio Gatti , Alessandra Pluda

We study the 3-dimensional combinatorial Yamabe flow in hyperbolic background geometry. For a triangulation of a 3-manifold, we prove that if the number of tetrahedra incident to each vertex is at least 23, then there exist real or virtual…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua

Thurston's triangulation conjecture asserts that every hyperbolic 3-manifold admits a geometric triangulation into hyper-ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra. So far, this conjecture had only been proven for a few special 3-manifolds. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ke Feng , Huabin Ge , Yunpeng Meng

Bounded-type 3-manifolds arise as combinatorially bounded gluings of irreducible 3-manifolds chosen from a finite list. We prove effective hyperbolization and effective rigidity for a broad class of 3-manifolds of bounded type and large…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Jeffrey Brock , Yair Minsky , Hossein Namazi , Juan Souto

We study a conformal flow for compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension greater than two with boundary. Convergence to a scalar-flat metric with constant mean curvature on the boundary is established in dimensions up to seven, and in any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Sergio Almaraz

We introduce a new class of discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary, which have nice interpolations in 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. Then we prove the global rigidity of the new discrete conformal structures using…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Xu Xu

The classic 2pi-Theorem of Gromov and Thurston constructs a negatively curved metric on certain 3-manifolds obtained by Dehn filling. By Geometrization, any such manifold admits a hyperbolic metric. We outline a program using cross…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Jason DeBlois , Dan Knopf , Andrea Young

We study the combinatorial Calabi flow for ideal circle patterns in both hyperbolic and Euclidean background geometry. We prove that the flow exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to an ideal circle pattern metric on surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Shengyu Li , Zhigang Wang

In this note, we develop a condition on a closed curve on a surface or in a 3-manifold that implies that the curve has the property that its length function on the space of all hyperbolic structures on the surface or 3-manifold completely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-05 James W. Anderson

On a closed Riemannian surface $(M,\bar g)$ with negative Euler characteristic, we study the problem of finding conformal metrics with prescribed volume $A>0$ and the property that their Gauss curvatures $f_\lambda= f + \lambda$ are given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Franziska Borer , Peter Elbau , Tobias Weth

We investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Emil Saucan

With a view to constructing a Morse/Floer homology theory for CMC hypersurfaces, we prove a compactness result modulo broken trajectories for eternal mean curvature flows with forcing term in compact, hyperbolic manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Graham Smith

We employ three different methods to prove the following result on prescribed scalar curvature plus mean curvature problem: Let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold with boundary, where $n \geq 3$, assume the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Xuezhang Chen , Pak Tung Ho , Liming Sun

On finite-volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, we compare volumes of different metrics using the exponential convergence of Ricci-DeTurck flow toward the hyperbolic metric $h_0$. We prove that among metrics with scalar curvature bounded below…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Ruojing Jiang , Franco Vargas Pallete

We consider classical curvature flows: 1-parameter families of convex embeddings of the 2-sphere into Euclidean 3-space which evolve by an arbitrary (non-homogeneous) function of the radii of curvature. The associated flow of the radii of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

We construct for every connected surface $S$ of finite negative Euler characteristic and every $H \in [0,1)$, a hyperbolic 3-manifold $N(S,H)$ of finite volume and a proper, two-sided, totally umbilic embedding $f\colon S\to N(S,H)$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Colin Adams , William H. Meeks , Alvaro 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

In this article, we classify (non-compact) $3$-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature. Precisely, we show that an oriented $3$-manifold has a complete metric with uniformly positive scalar curvature if and only if it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Jian Wang

We prove the existence of compact surfaces with prescribed constant mean curvature in asymptotically flat and asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. More precisely, let $(M^3,g)$ be an asymptotically flat manifold with scalar curvature $R\ge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Liam Mazurowski , Jintian Zhu

We show that a complete contractible 3-manifold with positive scalar curvature and bounded geometry must be $\mathbb R^3$. We also show that an open handlebody of genus larger than 1 does not admit complete metrics with positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Otis Chodosh , Yi Lai , Kai Xu