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We consider the question of existence of embedded doubly periodic minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space with Scherk-type ends, surfaces that topologically are Scherk's doubly periodic surface with handles added in various ways. We extend…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-01 Wayne Rossman , Edward C. Thayer , Meinhard Wohlgemuth

We study the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of their major semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere, use the formula to derive convexity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

In Part I, we develop the notions of a Moebius structure and a conformal Cartan geometry, establish an equivalence between them; we use them in Part II to study submanifolds of conformal manifolds in arbitrary dimension and codimension. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-30 Francis E. Burstall , David M. J. Calderbank

It is a well known phenomenon that many classical minimal surfaces in Euclidean space also exist with higher dihedral symmetry. More precisely, these surfaces are solutions to free boundary problems in a wedge bounded by two vertical planes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Ramazan Yol

In this paper, we show that the total area of two distinct surfaces with Gaussian curvature equal to 1, which are also conformal to the Euclidean unit disk with the same conformal factor on the boundary, must be at least 4{\pi}. In other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Changfeng Gui , Amir Moradifam

In this short note we prove that the degree of the Gauss map {\nu} of a closed 3-dimensional hypersurface of the Euclidean space is a lower bound for the total bending functional B, introduced by G. Wiegmink. Consequently, the energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Fabiano G. B. Brito , Andre O. Gomes , Adriana V. Nicoli

In this paper, we introduce a new discretization of the Gaussian curvature on surfaces, which is defined as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of some dual cell of a weighted triangulation at the conic singularity. A discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

We solve the problem on flat extensions of a generic surface with boundary in Euclidean 3-space, relating it to the singularity theory of the envelope generated by the boundary. We give related results on Legendre surfaces with boundaries…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Goo Ishikawa

We establish a lower bound for the surface area of a closed, convex hypersurface in Euclidean space in terms of its displacement under continuous maps. As a result, a hypothesized lower bound for the volume of a Riemannian $n$-sphere,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 James Dibble , Joseph Hoisington

We first define a complex angle between two oriented spacelike planes in 4-dimensional Minkowski space, and then study the constant angle surfaces in that space, i.e. the oriented spacelike surfaces whose tangent planes form a constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Pierre Bayard , Juan Monterde , Raúl C. Volpe

In this paper a generalized Gauss curvature flow about a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean $n$-space is studied. This flow is closely related to the Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which involves Gauss curvature and a function of support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-07 YanNan Liu , Jian Lu

Let Y be a surface with only finitely many singularities all of which are cusps. A set of cusps on Y is called three-divisible, if there is a cyclic global triple cover of Y branched precisely over these cusps. The aim of this note is to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-25 Wolf P. Barth , Slawomir Rams

We develop a perturbation theory for surfaces confining photons and massive particles in static spherically symmetric spacetimes in terms of two parameters: the mass-to-energy ratio and the deviation of metric functions from a given form,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Kirill Kobialko , Dmitri Gal'tsov

The Gauss map of a generic immersion of a smooth, oriented surface into $\mathbb R^4$ is an immersion. But this map takes values on the Grassmanian of oriented 2-planes in $\mathbb R^4$. Since this manifold has a structure of a product of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-07 W. Domitrz , L. I. Hernández-Martínez , F. Sánchez-Bringas

We prove two weighted geometric inequalities that hold for strictly mean convex and star-shaped hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. The first one involves the weighted area and the area of the hypersurface and also the volume of the region…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Frederico Girão , Diego Rodrigues

We give simple criteria for the singularities appearing on surfaces codimension less than or equal to two. As applications, we give conditions for codimension two singularities that appear in ruled surfaces and center maps of surfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Kentaro Saji , Runa Shimada

We introduce a new optimization problem regarding embeddings of a graph into a Euclidean space and discuss its relation to the two, mutually dual, optimizations problems introduced by Goering-Helmberg-Wappler. We prove that the Laplace…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Takumi Gomyou , Toshimasa Kobayashi , Takefumi Kondo , Shin Nayatani

This survey gives a brief overview of theoretically and practically relevant algorithms to compute geodesic paths and distances on three-dimensional surfaces. The survey focuses on polyhedral three-dimensional surfaces.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Anil Maheshwari , Stefanie Wuhrer

In this paper, we study the inverse surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^{3}$. We obtain some results relating Christoffel symbols, the normal curvatures, the shape operators and the third fundamental forms of the inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-17 M. Evren Aydin , Mahmut Ergut

In this paper, we study a natural discretization of the smooth Gaussian curvature on surfaces, which is defined as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of a geodesic disk at a vertex of a polyhedral surface. It is proved that each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng