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The Clifford tori in the 3-sphere are a one-parameter family of flat, two-dimensional, constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces. This paper demonstrates that new, topologically non-trivial CMC surfaces resembling a pair of neighbouring…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher , Frank Pacard

When considered as submanifolds of Euclidean space, the Riemannian geometry of the round sphere and the Clifford torus may be formulated in terms of Poisson algebraic expressions involving the embedding coordinates, and a central object is…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Joakim Arnlind

Surfaces of finite geometric type are complete, immersed into the tree-dimensional Euclidean space with finite total curvature and Gauss map extending to an oriented compact surface as a smooth branched covering map over the unit sphere of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Nícolas A. de Andrade , Luquesio P. Jorge

We investigate differential geometric properties of a parabolic point of a surface in the Euclidean three space. We introduce the contact cylindrical surface which is a cylindrical surface having a degenerate contact type with the original…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Masaru Hasegawa , Yutaro Kabata , Kentaro Saji

In this paper we introduce a flow on the spectral data for symmetric CMC surfaces in the $3$-sphere. The flow is designed in such a way that it changes the topology but fixes the intrinsic (metric) and certain extrinsic (periods) closing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Lynn Heller , Sebastian Heller , Nicholas Schmitt

The isotropic 3-space I^3 which is one of the Cayley--Klein spaces is obtained from the Euclidean space by substituting the usual Euclidean distance with the isotropic distance. In the present paper, we give several classifications on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Muhittin Evren Aydin

In this paper we study curvature types of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional (normed or) Minkowski spaces. By endowing the surface with a normal vector field, which is a transversal vector field given by the ambient Birkhoff…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Ralph Teixeira

We prove that any constant mean curvature embedded torus in the three dimensional sphere is axially symmetric, and use this to give a complete classification of such surfaces for any given value of the mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-28 Ben Andrews , Haizhong Li

We describe decomposition formulas for rotations of $R^3$ and $R^4$ that have special properties with respect to stereographic projection. We use the lower dimensional decomposition to analyze stereographic projections of great circles in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John McCuan , Lafe Spietz

Combining the intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, we generalize Einstein manifolds to Integral-Einstein (IE) submanifolds. A Takahashi-type theorem is established to characterize minimal hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature (CSC) in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jianquan Ge , Fagui Li

In this article we study surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3(1) \times \mathbb{R}$ for which the $\mathbb{R}$-direction makes a constant angle with the normal plane. We give a complete classification for such surfaces with parallel mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-04 Daguang Chen , Gangyi Chen , Hang Chen , Franki Dillen

In this paper we study horizontal curvatures for surfaces embedded in three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian Lie groups. Using a Riemannian approximation scheme, we derive explicit formulas for horizontal Gauss curvature, horizontal mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Elia Bubani , Andrea Pinamonti , Ioannis D. Platis , Dimitrios Tsolis

We adopt a measure-theoretic perspective on the Riemannian approximation scheme proving a sub-Riemannian Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces in 3D contact manifolds. We show that the zero-order term in the limit is a singular measure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Davide Barilari , Eugenio Bellini , Andrea Pinamonti

Special class of surfaces in five-dimensional sphere in $C^3$ is considered. Immersion equations for minimal tori of that class are shown to be reducible to the equation $u_{z\bar z}=e^u-e^{-2u}$ which is integrable by means of inverse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

We classify complete orientable hypersurfaces of constant isotropic curvature in space forms. We show that such a hypersurface has constant mean curvature only if it is an isoparametric hypersurface, and that it is minimal if and only if it…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 H. A. Gururaja , Niteesh Kumar

We classify branched immersed disks in space forms with non-zero parallel mean curvature vector and non-orthogonal constant contact angle along the boundary in 4-dimensional space form. For higher codimensional case, we prove a codimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Rui Gao , Miaomiao Zhu

We prove that singular minimal surfaces with constant Gauss curvature are planes, spheres and cylindrical surfaces. We also classify all singular minimal surfaces with a constant principal curvature and singular minimal surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Rafael López

We show that any minimal torus in $S^3$ which is Alexandrov immersed must be rotationally symmetric. An analogous result holds for surfaces of constant mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-26 S. Brendle

In this paper, we define the inverse surface of a tangent developable surface with respect to the sphere S_{c}(r) with the center $c\in \mathbb{E}^{3}$ and the radius r in 3-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^{3}$. We obtain the…

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

We classify the Lagrangian orientable surfaces in complex space forms with the property that the ellipse of curvature is always a circle. As a consequence, we obtain new characterizations of the Clifford torus of the complex projective…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Ildefonso Castro