In this paper, we investigate a holonomy invariant elliptic anisotropic surface energy for hypersurfaces in a complete Riemannian manifold, where "holonomy invariant" means that the elliptic parametric Lagrangian (i.e., a Finsler metric) of the Riemannian manifold used to define the anisotropic surface energy is consta…
Anisotropic min-max theory constructs stable minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds.
problem Constructing stable anisotropic minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds.
method Anisotropic min-max theory, removable singularity theorems.
result Constructs stable anisotropic minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds without singularities.
Study on Gauss map of anisotropic minimal surfaces with Morse index estimates.
problem Estimating the Morse index of anisotropic minimal surfaces.
method Local analysis of Gauss map, conformal geometric techniques applied to the Gauss map.
result Upper and lower estimates for the Morse index of anisotropic minimal surfaces.
Study on special anisotropic conformal changes of conic pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
problem Exploring various anisotropic conformal transformations of conic pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
method Presented various anisotropic conformal transformations including C-anisotropic, horizontal C-anisotropic, and vertical C-anisotropic transformations. result Vertical φT-condition transformation makes every Landsberg surface Berwaldian. We study surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature which are invariant under a helicoidal motion. For functionals with axially symmetric Wulff shapes, we generalize the recently developed twizzler representation of Perdomo to the anisotropic case and show how all helicoidal constant anisotropic mean curvature s…
The paper proves existence of special surfaces in 3D manifolds with constant curvature.
problem Existence of surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature.
method Min-max theory applied to elliptic integrands in 3D Riemannian manifolds.
result Existence of smooth surfaces with at most one singular point.
The study finds surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature foliated by circles in Euclidean space.
problem Existence and geometric description of surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature.
method Analyzes surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature of the Dirichlet energy, proving existence and classifying them.
result Existence and geometric description of surfaces foliated by circles with zero anisotropic mean curvature.
The study finds anisotropic minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds with smooth boundaries.
problem Finding smooth anisotropic minimal surfaces in closed 3-manifolds.
method Min-max construction with elliptic integrands, uniform upper bound for density ratios.
result Obtains a smooth anisotropic minimal surface in a closed 3-manifold.
Paper studies stability of curved surfaces in a half-space.
problem Stability of anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces in a half-space.
method Analyzes weak stability and proves Bernstein-type theorems.
result Compact hypersurfaces are stable if and only if they are a truncated Wulff shape.
Study anisotropic obstacle problem for minimal surfaces using Cahn-Hoffman transform.
problem Anisotropic obstacle problem for minimal surfaces.
method Cahn-Hoffman transform to convert to isotropic problem with generalized Robin boundary condition.
result Optimal regularity of the solution and C1,1 regularity of the free boundary. Study on surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature in 3D space.
problem Characterizing surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature.
method Analyzing uniformly elliptic anisotropic functionals and proving properties of surfaces.
result Characterization of surfaces with constant anisotropic mean curvature.
Study anisotropic capillary surfaces in a wedge using generalized Minkowski norms.
problem Understanding capillary surfaces with anisotropic forces.
method Generalized Minkowski norm on the unit sphere, new Minkowski formulae, Heintze-Karcher inequality.
result Proved an Alexandrov-type theorem in the anisotropic setting.
New anisotropic surfaces can have non-Wulff shapes without being Wulff shapes.
problem Existence of non-Wulff anisotropic surfaces.
method Analysis of anisotropic surface energy and mean curvature flow.
result Non-uniqueness of anisotropic surfaces with constant mean curvature.
Geometric proof shows regularity of anisotropic minimal surfaces in 2D.
problem Regularity of anisotropic minimal surfaces in 2D.
method Geometric proof using surface energy and strict convexity.
result All anisotropic surface minimizers in 2D are locally disjoint unions of line segments.
Develops a PDE approach to constructing nontrivial anisotropic surfaces.
problem Min-max construction of anisotropic surfaces.
method PDE-based approach to anisotropic surface energies.
result Construction of an anisotropic min-max hypersurface.
Study finds unique critical points for anisotropic surface energy.
problem Finding unique critical points for anisotropic surface energy.
method Proving finite unions of disjoint open Wulff shapes are volume-constrained critical points.
result Finite unions of disjoint open Wulff shapes are the only critical points.
The paper studies anisotropic conformal changes in pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
problem Investigating geometric properties under anisotropic conformal transformations.
method Analyzing geometric objects like Berwald, Landsberg, and Douglas tensors under anisotropic conformal transformations.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for various geometric properties under anisotropic conformal transformations.
We show that for elliptic parametric functionals whose Wulff shape is smooth and has strictly positive curvature, any surface with constant anisotropic mean curvature which is a topological sphere is a rescaling of the Wulff shape.
Paper extends Wente's result to anisotropic capillary surfaces in half-spaces.
problem Extending Wente's result to anisotropic capillary surfaces.
method New Heintze-Karcher inequality and Minkowski formula.
result Anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces in half-spaces are Wulff shapes.
Anisotropic obstacle problems and Stefan problem studied with evolving surfaces.
problem Anisotropic parabolic obstacle problems and Stefan problem.
method Cahn-Hoffman transform and anisotropic mean curvature flow.
result Optimal regularity of the solution and C1,α-regularity of the evolving free boundary. The study proves that certain minimal surfaces are flat under specific conditions.
problem Characterizing minimal surfaces in anisotropic spaces.
method Proving a Bernstein theorem for Φ-anisotropic minimal hypersurfaces. result The only entire smooth solutions to the Φ-anisotropic minimal hypersurfaces equation are linear functions. Researchers reconstruct stiffness tensors from limited data in anisotropic elasticity.
problem Reconstructing stiffness tensors from partial data around one polarization.
method Using algebraic geometry and slowness surfaces, the approach leverages the algebraic geometry of families of slowness surfaces.
result For tensors in a dense open subset, a small amount of data around one polarization uniquely determines the entire slowness surface and stiffness tensor.
We study the stability of closed, not necessarily smooth, equilibrium surfaces of an anisotropic surface energy for which the Wulff shape is not necessarily smooth. We show that if the Cahn Hoffman field can be extended continuously to the whole surface and if the surface is stable, then the surface is, up to rescaling…
Paper proves existence of solutions for complex surface diffusion equation.
problem Existence of solutions for anisotropic surface diffusion with elasticity.
method Cahn-Taylor minimizing movement scheme for three-dimensional analysis.
result Proves existence of classical solutions without curvature regularization.
Paper solves anisotropic capillary Minkowski problem for p ≥ 1.
problem Anisotropic capillary convex bodies and their properties.
method Introduced anisotropic capillary p-sum and computed variations of quermassintegrals. result Solved the anisotropic capillary Lp-Minkowski problem for p≥1. In this note, we give a classification of complete anisotropic isoparametric hypersurfaces, i.e., hypersurfaces with constant anisotropic principal curvatures, in Euclidean spaces, which is in analogue with the classical case for isoparametric hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces. On the other hand, by an example of local…
This research examines anisotropic conformal transformations of pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
problem Investigating anisotropic conformal transformations of conic pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
method Using modified Berwald frame, the study finds necessary and sufficient conditions for anisotropic conformal transformations and analyzes geometric properties.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for anisotropic conformal transformations of pseudo-Finsler surfaces are derived.
Paper proves existence of anisotropic dynamical horizons in gravitational collapse.
problem Existence of apparent horizons in gravitational collapse.
method Scale-critical hyperbolic method and non-perturbative elliptic techniques.
result Smooth and spacelike apparent horizons emerge from general initial data in gravitational collapse.
In this paper we investigate the "area blow-up" set of a sequence of smooth co-dimension one manifolds whose first variation with respect to an anisotropic integral is bounded. Following the ideas introduced by White in (J. Differential Geom., 2016), we show that this set has bounded (anisotropic) mean curvature in the…
Study proves uniform ellipticity implies uniform polyconvexity for anisotropic energy functionals.
problem Investigating uniform ellipticity and polyconvexity for anisotropic geometric energy functionals.
method Proves a variant of a recent result using real polyhedral chains.
result Uniform ellipticity of an anisotropic energy functional implies uniform polyconvexity of the integrand.
Sharp bounds for anisotropic p-capacity of Euclidean compact sets derived using flow methods.
problem Sharp bounds for anisotropic p-capacity of Euclidean compact sets.
method Inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow (IAMCF) and anisotropic Hawking mass.
result Upper bounds for anisotropic p-capacity derived using flow methods.
Study on droplet flow on uneven surfaces, proving existence and properties.
problem Understanding droplet movement on irregular surfaces.
method Existence of smooth flow and 1/2-Hölder continuous minimizing movement solutions.
result Properties of minimizing movements including comparison principles and uniform boundedness.
Study shows limits of volume-constrained sets are finite unions of Wulff shapes.
problem Analyzing the behavior of sets with degenerating ellipticity.
method Proving rigidity of L1-accumulation points of volume-constrained almost-critical sets. result Limits of volume-constrained sets are finite unions of φ-Wulff shapes. We study the long time existence theory for a non local flow associated to a free boundary problem for a trapped non liquid drop. The drop has free boundary components on two horizontal plates and its free energy is anisotropic and axially symmetric. For axially symmetric initial surfaces with sufficiently large volume…
We construct a black hole initial data for the Einstein equations with prescribed scalar curvature, or more precisely a piece of initial data contained inside the black hole. The constraints translate into a parabolic equation, with radius as "time" variable, on a metric component u that undergoes blow up. The metric i…
Klainerman, Luk and Rodnianski derived an anisotropic criterion for formation of trapped surfaces in vacuum, extending the original trapped surface formation theorem of Christodoulou. The effort to understand their result led us to study the intersection of a hyperplane with a lightcone in the Minkowski spacetime. For …
We study the multiplicity sets of first order symbols associated with differential operators on two dimensional surfaces. This work is inspired by the phenomenon of conical refraction explained by the existence of singularities in the Fresnel hyper-surface for Maxwell's equations on an anisotropic crystal.
We develop a theory of axisymmetric surfaces minimizing a combination of surface tension and nematic elastic energies which may be suitable for describing simple film and bubble shapes. As a function of the elastic constant and the applied tension on the bubbles, we find the analogues of the unduloid, sphere, and nodoi…
We show the existence of a smooth solution for the flow deformed by the square root of the scalar curvature multiplied by a positive anisotropic factor ψ given a strictly convex initial hypersurface in Euclidean space suitably pinched. We also prove the convergence of rescaled surfaces to a smooth limit manifold whic…
Paper proves anisotropic Minkowski inequality and related inequalities.
problem Proving anisotropic Minkowski inequality and related inequalities.
method Utilizes a nonlinear potential theoretic approach.
result Sharp anisotropic Minkowski inequality and related inequalities proved.
New Kelvin transform for anisotropic elliptic problems.
problem Semilinear and quasilinear anisotropic elliptic problems.
method Introducing a new Kelvin-type transform in the anisotropic setting.
result New insights into anisotropic elliptic problems.
New method uses broken scattering to uniquely identify Finsler manifolds.
problem Identifying Finsler manifolds from scattering data.
method Uses broken scattering relation to compare geodesics.
result Two reversible Finsler manifolds with the same broken scattering relation are isometric.
We review and extend here some recent results on the existence of minimal surfaces and isoperimetric sets in non homogeneous and anisotropic periodic media. We also describe the qualitative properties of the homogenized surface tension, also known as stable norm (or minimal action) in Weak KAM theory. In particular we …
Paper proves rigidity results for anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces.
problem Rigidity of anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces.
method New Hsiung-Minkowski integral formula for anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces.
result Uniqueness of solution to anisotropic Orlicz-Christoffel-Minkowski problem.
Paper solves Minkowski problem for anisotropic p-torsional rigidity.
problem Solving the Minkowski problem for anisotropic p-torsional rigidity.
method Using the anisotropic p-Laplacian equation, presenting sufficient and necessary conditions for existence. result Presented sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of a solution.
Unique ancient solutions found for anisotropic curve shortening flow.
problem Finding unique solutions for anisotropic curve shortening flow.
method Constructing translating and ancient solutions under given conditions.
result Unique ancient and translating solutions found for anisotropic curve shortening flow.
Formula proves monotonicity for anisotropic minimal hypersurfaces.
problem Understanding anisotropic minimal hypersurfaces.
method Proved a monotonicity formula under a sign assumption on the Minkowski norm.
result Monotonicity formula for anisotropic minimal hypersurfaces.
In this paper, we study the anisotropic Minkowski problem. It is a problem of prescribing the anisotropic Gauss-Kronecker curvature for a closed strongly convex hypersurface in Euclidean space as a function on its anisotropic normals in relative or Minkowski geometry. We first formulate such problem to a Monge-Ampére t…