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In this paper we introduce the notion of contact angle. We deduce formulas for Laplacian and Gaussian curvature of a minimal surface in $S^{2n+1}$ and give a characterization of the generalized Clifford Torus as the only non-legendrian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes , Jose A. Verderesi

We provide a characterization of the Clifford Torus in S3 via moving frames and contact structure equations. More precisely, we prove that minimal surfaces in S3 with constant contact angle must be the Clifford Torus. Some applications of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes Jose A. Verderesi

Using the Lawson's existence theorem of minimal surfaces and the symmetries of the Hopf fibration, we will construct symmetric embedded closed minimal surfaces in the three dimensional sphere. These surfaces contain the Clifford torus, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Sheng Bai , Chao Wang , Shicheng Wang

Building on work of Kapouleas and Yang, we construct sequences of minimal surfaces embedded in the round 3-sphere which converge to the Clifford torus counted with multiplicity two and have second fundamental form blowing up at every point…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 David Wiygul

Extending work of Kapouleas and Yang, for any integers $N \geq 2$, $k, \ell \geq 1$, and $m$ sufficiently large, we apply gluing methods to construct in the round $3$-sphere a closed embedded minimal surface that has genus $k\ell…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-28 David Wiygul

We construct embedded closed minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere, resembling two parallel copies of the Clifford torus, joined by m^2 small catenoidal bridges symmetrically arranged along a square lattice of points on the torus.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolaos Kapouleas , Seong-Deog Yang

In this survey, we discuss various aspects of the minimal surface equation in the three-sphere S^3. After recalling the basic definitions, we describe a family of immersed minimal tori with rotational symmetry. We then review the known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-29 S. Brendle

In this paper we classify compact minimal surfaces in $S^5$ with non-negative Gaussian curvature using the notion of a contact angle.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo Ristow Montes

A peculiarity of the geometry of the euclidean 3-sphere $\S3$ is that it allows for the existence of compact without boundary minimally immersed surfaces. Despite a wealthy of examples of such surfaces, the only known tori minimally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-18 Fernando A. A. Pimentel

Topology and geometry are deeply intertwined in the study of surfaces, though their interaction manifests differently in smooth and discrete settings. In the smooth category, a classical result asserts that any closed smooth surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Soto Hisakawa , Shizuo Kaji , Ryo Kawai

We describe the curves of constant (geodesic) curvature and torsion in the three-dimensional round sphere. These curves are the trajectory of a point whose motion is the superposition of two circular motions in orthogonal planes. The global…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Debraj Chakrabarti , Rahul Sahay , Jared Williams

We discover a family of closed, embedded minimal surfaces in the three-dimensional round sphere which includes new examples with low genus. The existence proof relies on an equivariant min-max procedure applied to a novel sweepout which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

In this paper we study constant positive Gauss curvature $K$ surfaces in the 3-sphere $S^3$ with $0<K<1$ as well as constant negative curvature surfaces. We show that the so-called normal Gauss map for a surface in $S^3$ with Gauss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-18 David Brander , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Shimpei Kobayashi

We use Clifford algebras to construct a unified formalism for studying constant extrinsic curvature immersed surfaces in riemannian and semi-riemannian $3$-manifolds in terms of immersed bilegendrian surfaces in their unitary bundles. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Graham Smith

We give a local analytic characterization that a minimal surface in the 3-sphere $\, \ES^3 \subset \R^4$ defined by an irreducible cubic polynomial is one of the Lawson's minimal tori. This provides an alternative proof of the result by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Joe S. Wang

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 consider the sub-Riemannian metric $g_{h}$ on $\mathbb{S}^3$ provided by the restriction of the Riemannian metric of curvature 1 to the plane distribution orthogonal to the Hopf vector field. We compute the geodesics associated to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ana Hurtado , César Rosales

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem about spherical helicoidal (in particular, rotational) surfaces with prescribed mean or Gaussian curvature in terms of a continuous function depending on the distance to its axis. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

A new approach for constructing minimal submanifolds of codimension 1 in the round spheres is proposed. In the case of $\mathbb{S}^3$ two immersions of the Clifford torus and all Lawson $\tau_{n, m}$ surfaces are described in terms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Aleksei Kislitsyn

In this paper, we study $n$-dimensional complete minimal hypersurfaces in a unit sphere. We prove that an $n$-dimensional complete minimal hypersurface with constant scalar curvature in a unit sphere with $f_3$ constant is isometric to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Qing-Ming Cheng , Guoxin Wei , Takuya Yamashiro
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