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We find all analytic surfaces in space $\mathbb{R}^3$ such that through each point of the surface one can draw two transversal circular arcs fully contained in the surface. The problem of finding such surfaces traces back to the works of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Mikhail Skopenkov , Rimvydas Krasauskas

The edge of torn elastic sheets and growing leaves often form a hierarchical buckling pattern. Within non-Euclidean plate theory this complex morphology can be understood as low bending energy isometric immersions of hyperbolic Riemannian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-10 John Gemmer , Eran Sharon , Shankar Venkataramani

In this paper, the Weierstrass technique for harmonic maps S^2 -> CP^(N-1) is employed in order to obtain surfaces immersed in multidimensional Euclidean spaces. It is shown that if the CP^(N-1) model equations are defined on the sphere S^2…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 A. M. Grundland , I. Yurdusen

We prove that any compact surface with constant positive curvature and conical singularities can be decomposed into irreducible components of standard shape, glued along geodesic arcs connecting conical singularities. This is a spherical…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Guillaume Tahar

We relate the existence problem of harmonic maps into $S^2$ to the convex geometry of $S^2$. On one hand, this allows us to construct new examples of harmonic maps of degree 0 from compact surfaces of arbitrary genus into $S^2$. On the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Renan Assimos , Jürgen Jost

We study the reflection of an acoustic plane wave from a steadily sliding planar interface with velocity strengthening friction or a shear band in a confined granular medium. The corresponding acoustic impedance is utterly different from…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Caroli , B. Velicky

In this paper, we study an extension of the CPE conjecture to manifolds $M$ which support a structure relating curvature to the geometry of a smooth map $\varphi : M \to N$. The resulting system, denoted by $(\varphi-\mathrm{CPE})$, is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Giulio Colombo , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

We consider the problem of mirror invisibility for plane sets. Given a circle and a finite number of unit vectors (defining the directions of invisibility) such that the angles between them are commensurable with $\pi$, for any $\varepsilon…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Alexander Plakhov

We prove that, given a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ and disjoint finite sets $\varnothing\neq E\subset\Sigma$ and $\Lambda\subset\Sigma$, every map $\Lambda \to \mathbb{R}^3$ extends to a complete conformal minimal immersion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Antonio Alarcon , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Francisco J. Lopez

We prove the first inverse theorem for point--sphere incidence bounds over finite fields in dimensions $d \ge 3$, showing that near-extremality forces algebraic rigidity. While sharp upper bounds have been known for over a decade, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Shalender Singh , Vishnu Priya Singh

Scattering of refracting Huygens' metasurfaces is revisited. A new analytical closed-form solution is obtained for the two-dimensional problem under transverse electric (TE) plane-wave incidence -- a solution which gives the scattering for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Gleb A. Egorov , George V. Eleftheriades

Shear localization in granular materials is studied experimentally and numerically. The system consists of two material layers with different effective frictions. The presence of the material interface leads to a special type of "total…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-18 Tamas Borzsonyi , Tamas Unger , Balazs Szabo , Sandra Wegner , Frank Angenstein , Ralf Stannarius

We show that a minimal surface meeting a sphere at a 90-degree angle can be reflected across the sphere. Using this reflection, we prove the uniqueness that every embedded free boundary minimal annulus in a ball is necessarily the critical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Jaigyoung Choe

The surface states of intrinsic higher order topological phases are protected by the spatial symmetries of a finite sample. This property makes the existing scattering theory of topological invariants inapplicable because the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 R. Johanna Zijderveld , Isidora Araya Day , Anton R. Akhmerov

In this article, we propose a new dimensionality-independent and gradient-free sampler, called Geometric Optics Approximation Sampling, which is based on the reflector antenna system. The core idea is to construct a reflecting surface that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Zejun Sun , Guang-Hui Zheng

The symmetries described by Pin groups are the result of combining a finite number of discrete reflections in (hyper)planes. The current work shows how an analysis using geometric algebra provides a picture complementary to that of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Martin Roelfs , Steven De Keninck

In R^3, let M be the infinite union of unit spheres whose centers lie at even integers on the x-axis; every pair of consecutive spheres touches at (2m+1, 0, 0). Desingularizing these point contacts yields Delaunay's classical constant mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Oscar Perdomo

This paper concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in three-dimensional Minkowski space in relation to their Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge is uniquely foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Francesco Bonsante , Andrea Seppi , Peter Smillie

We study closed orientable surfaces satisfying the spectral condition $\lambda_1(-\Delta+\beta K)\geq\lambda\geq0$, where $\beta$ is a positive constant and $K$ is the Gauss curvature. This condition naturally arises for stable minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Kai Xu

We prove uniform convergence of metrics $g_k$ on a closed surface with bounded integral curvature (measure) in the sense of A.D. Alexandrov, under the assumption that the curvature measures $\mathbb{K}_{g_k}=\mu^1_k-\mu^2_k$, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jingyi Chen , Yuxiang Li