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We introduce two pointwise subspace averages of sectional curvature on a d-dimensional plane Pi in T_p M: (i) the intrinsic mean Ricci (the average of sectional curvatures of 2-planes contained in Pi); and (ii) the normal (mixed) mean Ricci…

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In this paper, we can obtain curvature estimates for spacelike admissible graphic hypersurfaces in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{1}$, and through which the existence of spacelike admissible graphic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ya Gao , Jie Li , Jing Mao , Zhiqi Xie

We describe defects - dislocations and disclinations - in the framework of Riemann-Cartan geometry. Curvature and torsion tensors are interpreted as surface densities of Frank and Burgers vectors, respectively. Equations of nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. O. Katanaev

In this paper results from the differential geometry of curves are extended from normed planes to gauge planes which are obtained by neglecting the symmetry axiom. Based on the gauge analogue of the notion of Birkhoff orthogonality from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Makoto Sakaki

We show that Caratheodory's conjecture, on umbilical points of closed convex surfaces, may be reformulated in terms of the existence of at least one umbilic in the graphs of functions f: R^2-->R whose gradient decays uniformly faster than…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Mohammad Ghomi , Ralph Howard

We give some results on quadratic normality of reducible curves canonically embedded and partially extend this study to their projective normality.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Edoardo Ballico , Silvia Brannetti

We study some sub-Riemannian objects (such as horizontal connectivity, horizontal connection, horizontal tangent plane, horizontal mean curvature) in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a connected hypersurface in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kang-Hai Tan , Xiao-Ping Yang

Having in mind the well known model of Euclidean convex hypersurfaces [4], [5], and the ideas in [1] many authors defined and investigate convex hypersurfaces of a Riemannian manifold. As it was proved by the first author in [7], there…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Constantin Udriste , Teodor Oprea

In this paper, we give the geometric meaning of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in a Finsler manifold by using volume preserving variation. Then we give the correspondence between principal curvatures of submanifolds by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Yali Chen , Qun He , Yantong Qian

Families of conformal field theories are naturally endowed with a Riemannian geometry which is locally encoded by correlation functions of exactly marginal operators. We show that the curvature of such conformal manifolds can be computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Bruno Balthazar , Clay Cordova

In this paper, we study the mean curvature flow of graphs with Neumann boundary condition. The main aim is to use the maximum principle to get the boundary gradient estimate for solutions. In particular, we obtain the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Jinju Xu

We obtain improved local well-posedness results for the Lorentzian timelike minimal surface equation. In dimension $d=3$, for a surface of arbitrary co-dimension, we show a gain of $1/3$ derivative regularity compared to a generic equation…

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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

These are lecture notes for the mini-course \textit{PDE and hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature} held in Federal University of S\~ao Carlos at the Workshop on Submanifold Theory and Geometric Analysis, August 05 -- 09, 2019. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Yunelsy N Alvarez

In this paper we present the algorithms for calculating the differential geometric properties {t,n,b1,b2,b3,k1,k2,k3,k4} along-with geodesic curvature and geodesic torsion of the transversal intersection curve of four hypersurfaces (given…

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In this paper, we introduce an inclined curves according to parallel transport frame. Also, we define a vector field called Darboux vector field of an inclined curve in and we give a new characterization such as: "\alpha: I \subset R…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-01 Fatma GökÇelik , İsmail Gök , F. Nejat Ekmekci , Yusuf Yayli

We consider surfaces in Euclidean space parametrized on an annular domain such that the first fundamental form and the principal curvatures are rotationally invariant, and the principal curvature directions only depend on the angle of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Daniel Freese , Matthias Weber

We prove some rigidity and classification results for graphs with prescribed mean curvature and locally constant Dirichlet and Neumann data, for instance as they appear in capillarity problems. We consider domains in Riemannian manifolds,…

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We study imbedded hypersurfaces in spacetime whose causal character is allowed to change from point to point. Inherited geometrical structures on these hypersurfaces are defined by two methods: first, the standard rigged connection induced…

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After defining generalizations of the notions of covariant derivatives and geodesics from Riemannian geometry for reductive Cartan geometries in general, various results for reductive Cartan geometries analogous to important elementary…

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