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We define Discrete Quasi-Einstein metrics (DQE-metrics) as the critical points of discrete total curvature functional on triangulated 3-manifolds. We study DQE-metrics by introducing some combinatorial curvature flows. We prove that these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

We construct new examples of immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected hypersurfaces in closed manifolds, which converge to minimal hypersurfaces with multiplicity $2$ as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jingwen Chen , Ao Sun

We give an upper bound for the number of compact essential orientable non-isotopic surfaces, with Euler characteristic at least some constant $\chi$, properly embedded in a finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$, closed or cusped. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Marc Lackenby , Anastasiia Tsvietkova

Let $(M,g)$ be a complete three dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary $\partial M$. Given smooth functions $K(x)>0$ and $c(x)$ defined on $M$ and $\partial M$, respectively, it is natural to ask whether there exist metrics conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-29 Lei Zhang

In this paper we prove two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow of possibly non-compact hypersurfaces in general ambient complete Riemannian manifolds. These are applicable to a wide range of extrinsic geometric flow,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Dasong Li , John Man Shun Ma

For triangulated surfaces, we introduce the combinatorial Calabi flow which is an analogue of smooth Calabi flow. We prove that the solution of combinatorial Calabi flow exists for all time. Moreover, the solution converges if and only if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Huabin Ge

We study principal curvatures of fibers and Heegaard surfaces smoothly embedded in hyperbolic 3-manifolds. It is well known that a fiber or a Heegaard surface in a hyperbolic 3-manifold cannot have principal curvatures everywhere less than…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-05 William Breslin

In this paper, we study a natural discretization of the smooth Gaussian curvature on surfaces. A discrete uniformization theorem is established for this discrete Gaussian curvature. We further investigate the prescribing combinatorial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

We consider closed immersed surfaces in R^3 evolving by the geometric triharmonic heat flow. Using local energy estimates, we prove interior estimates and a positive absolute lower bound on the lifespan of solutions depending solely on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-02 James McCoy , Scott Parkins , Glen Wheeler

We prove that various spaces of constrained positive scalar curvature metrics on compact 3-manifolds with boundary, when not empty, are contractible. The constraints we mostly focus on are given in terms of local conditions on the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Alessandro Carlotto , Chao Li

In this paper, we study some intrinsic characterization of conformally compact manifolds. We show that, if a complete Riemannian manifold admits an essential set and its curvature tends to -1 at infinity in certain rate, then it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Xue Hu , Jie Qing , Yuguang Shi

In this paper, we study the intrinsic mean curvature flow on certain closed spacelike manifolds, and prove the existence of hyperbolic structures on them.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-23 Kun Zhang

In this article we write the equations of barotropic compressible fluid mechanics as a geodesic equation on an infinite-dimensional manifold. The equations are given by \begin{align} u_t + \nabla_uu = -\frac{1}{\rho} \grad p \\ \rho_t +…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Stephen C. Preston

Let (M,g) be a compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary. This article is concerned with the set of scalar-flat metrics on M which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Sergio Almaraz

A recent paper [CGT] studies the evolution of star-shaped mean convex hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space by a class of nonhomogeneous expanding curvature flows. In the present paper we consider the same problem in the real, complex and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Giuseppe Pipoli

In this paper, we study the geometric aspects of ball packings on $(M,\mathcal{T})$, where $\mathcal{T}$ is a triangulation on a 3-manifold $M$. We introduce a combinatorial Yamabe invariant $Y_{\mathcal{T}}$, depending on the topology of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Huabin Ge , Wenshuai Jiang , Liangming Shen

For hypersurfaces moving by standard mean curvature flow with boundary, we show that if a tangent flow at a boundary singularity is given by a smoothly embedded shrinker, then the shrinker must be non-orientable. We also show that there is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

In 2004, Manning showed that the topological entropy of the geodesic flow of a closed surface of non-constant negative curvature is strictly decreasing along the normalized Ricci flow, and he asked if an analogous result holds in higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Karen Butt , Alena Erchenko , Tristan Humbert

We provide a combinatorial presentation of the set F of 3-dimensional generic flows, namely the set of pairs (M,v) with M a compact oriented 3-manifold and v a nowhere-zero vector field on M having generic behaviour along the boundary of M,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Carlo Petronio

Let $P$ be a submanifold properly immersed in a rotationally symmetric manifold having a pole and endowed with a weight $e^h$. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, by assuming certain control on the $h$-mean curvature of $P$, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Ana Hurtado , Vicente Palmer , César Rosales