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A classical result of Wente, motivated by the study of sessile capillarity droplets, demonstrates the axial symmetry of every hypersurface which meets a hyperplane at a constant angle and has mean curvature dependent only on the distance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Cornelia Mihaila

We develop the theory of the diagrammatics of surface cross sections to prove that there are an infinite number of homology 3-spheres smoothly embeddable in a homology 4-sphere but not in a homotopy 4-sphere. Our primary obstruction comes…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Clayton McDonald

The capillary condensation for fluids into spherical nano-cavities is analyzed within the frame of two theoretical approaches. One description is based on a widely used simplified version of the droplet model formulated for studying atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignacio Urrutia , Leszek Szybisz

In this article, we establish a relationship between geometric quantities of a hypersurface restricted to its boundary, and the geometric quantities of its boundary as a hypersurface of the boundary of the ball. As a first application, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Iury Domingos , Roney Santos , Feliciano Vitório

An extension of Penrose's singularity theorem is proved for spacetimes where black holes are allowed to form from non-singular initial data. With standard assumptions about the spacetime, and assuming the existence of a trapped surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Alexander Vilenkin , Aron C. Wall

Standard singularity theorems are proven in Lorentzian manifolds of arbitrary dimension n if they contain closed trapped submanifolds of arbitrary co-dimension. By using the mean curvature vector to characterize trapped submanifolds, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Gregory J. Galloway , José M. M. Senovilla

We prove that under some assumptions on the mean curvature the set of umbilical points of an immersed surface in a $3$-dimensional space form has positive measure. In case of an immersed sphere our result can be seen as a generalization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Giovanni Catino , Alberto Roncoroni , Luigi Vezzoni

We construct flat metrics in a given conformal class with prescribed singularities of real orders at marked points of a closed real surface. The singularities can be small conical, cylindrical, and large conical with possible translation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-13 Sergiu Moroianu

Let M be a compact complex surface which admits a Kaehler metric whose scalar curvature has integral zero; and suppose the fundamental group of M does not contain an Abelian subgroup of finite index. Then if M is blown up at sufficiently…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2009-10-22 Claude LeBrun , Michael Singer

The minimal surfaces meeting in triples with equal angles along a common boundary naturally arise from soap films and other physical phenomenon. They are also the natural extension of the usual minimal surface. In this paper, we consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Gaoming Wang

A projectability result is proved for surfaces of prescribed mean curvature (shortly called $H$-surfaces) spanned in a partially free boundary configuration. Hereby, the $H$-surface is allowed to meet the support surface along its free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Frank Müller

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

In this paper, we prove that a two-dimensional self-shrinker, homeomorphic to the sphere, immersed in the three dimensional Euclidean space is a round sphere, provided its mean curvature and the norm of its position vector have an upper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Hilário Alencar , Gregório Silva Neto , Detang Zhou

In this paper, we give a survey of various sphere theorems in geometry. These include the topological sphere theorem of Berger and Klingenberg as well as the differentiable version obtained by the authors. These theorems employ a variety of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-01 S. Brendle , R. M. Schoen

We show the existence of periodic traveling waves at the free surface of a two dimensional, infinitely deep, and constant vorticity flow, under gravity, whose profiles are overhanging, including one which intersects itself to enclose a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Miles H. Wheeler

For every $p,q\geq 1$, we construct minimal embeddings of $\mathbb{S}^p \times \mathbb{S}^q \times \mathbb{S}^1$ in $\mathbb{S}^{p + q + 2}$ by doubling the links of free-boundary minimal cones in $\mathbb{R}^{p+q+3}$ with bi-orthogonal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis

A millimetre-size superhydrophobic sphere impacting on the free surface of a quiescent bath can be propelled back into the air by capillary effects and dynamic fluid forces, whilst transferring part of its energy to the fluid. We report the…

We give a technical result that implies a straightforward necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph of groups with virtually cyclic edge groups to be one ended. For arbitrary graphs of groups, we show that if their fundamental group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nicholas Touikan

A cap of spherical radius $\alpha$ on a unit $d$-sphere $S$ is the set of points within spherical distance $\alpha$ from a given point on the sphere. Let $\mathcal F$ be a finite set of caps lying on $S$. We prove that if no hyperplane…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Alexandr Polyanskii

Let M be a compact manifold with boundary. In this paper, we discuss some rigidity theorems of metrics in a same conformal class that fixes the boundary and satisfy certain integral conditions on the the scalar curvatures and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Ezequiel Barbosa , Heudson Mirandola , Feliciano Vitorio