arXiv research

Study examines Yang-Mills-Higgs energy convergence to codimension-three area functional.

The paper characterizes stable cohomotopy groups in codimensions two and three, linking algebraic and geometric perspectives.

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the Palais-Smale Condition C to hold for the Yang-Mills functional for invariant connections on a principal bundle over a compact manifold of any dimension. It is assumed that the connections are invariant under the action of a compact Lie group on the manifold, and tha…

New examples show nonnegatively curved metrics with same soul but different moduli space components.

For smooth embeddings of an integral homology 3-sphere in the 6-sphere, we define an integer invariant in terms of their Seifert surfaces. Our invariant gives a bijection between the set of smooth isotopy classes of such embeddings and the integers. It also gives rise to a complete invariant for homology bordism classe…

For each odd integer r greater than one and not divisible by three we give explicit examples of infinite families of simply and tangentially homotopy equivalent but pairwise non-homeomorphic closed homogeneous spaces with fundamental group isomorphic to Z/r. As an application we construct the first examples of manifold…

Given $k\in \mathbb{R},$ $v,$ $D>0,$ and $n\in \mathbb{N},$ let $\left\{ M_{α}\right\} _{α=1}^{\infty }$ be a Gromov-Hausdorff convergent sequence of Riemannian $n$--manifolds with sectional curvature $\geq k,$ volume $>v,$ and diameter $\leq D.$ Perelman's Stability Theorem implies that all but finitely many of the $M…

Introduces new weighted floating functions and affine surface areas.

The paper shows how heat flow approximates area functional on specific geometric spaces.

Proves strong Morse inequalities for area functional in low dimensions.

Our aim is to define and study a structure for some $(4n+3)$-dimensional manifolds which is named almost coquaternion structure. This structure is composed of three almost cocomplex structures $(φ_a, ξ_a, η_a)$, $a = 1,2,3$, which satisfy some relations and may be considered as analogous to the almost quaternion struct…

The paper develops inequalities for log-concave functions and related surface areas.

We prove the existence of a continuous $BV$ minimizer with $C^{0}$ boundary value for the $p$-area (pseudohermitian or horizontal area) in a parabolically convex bounded domain. We extend the domain of the area functional from $BV$ functions to vector-valued measures. Our main purpose is to study the first and second v…

Researchers study surface area functionals in CR manifolds, deducing equations for various cases.

Prove Riemannian positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat metrics with low-codimension singularities.

Flat stable minimal hypersurfaces in 5 or 6D are always flat.

We show the existence of a smooth spherical surface minimizing the Willmore functional subject to an area constraint in a compact Riemannian three-manifold, provided the area is small enough. Moreover, we classify complete surfaces of Willmore type with positive mean curvature in Riemannian three-manifolds.

Proves a conjecture about metrics and minimal area enclosures.

In Minkowski geometry the unit ball is a compact convex body $K$ containing the origin in its interior. The boundary of the body is formed by the unit vectors. We also have a so-called Minkowski functional to measure the length of vectors. By changing the origin in the interior of the body we have a smoothly varying fa…

Proves planar Lipschitz critical points of area functional are smooth.

This paper constructs Brownian motion on complex flag manifolds and finds joint distribution of stochastic areas.

Study area minimizing currents in conformal cones, solving Dirichlet problems.

Study area-minimizing subgraphs in integer lattices.

We investigate the Hawking energy of small surfaces in space times without symmetry assumptions by introducing the notion of Hawking type functionals. In particular, we find that Hawking type functionals are generalized Willmore functionals which allows us to find area constrained, minimizing, immersed, haunted bubble …

We discuss a special class of solutions to the minimal surface system. These are vector-valued functions that "decrease area" and are natural generalization of scalar functions. After defining area-decreasing maps, we show several classical results for the minimal surface equation can be generalized. We also conjecture…

A formula for triangle area in Deep Sets form.

The expression for the variation of the area functional of the second fundamental form of a hypersurface in a Euclidean space involves the so-called "mean curvature of the second fundamental form". Several new characteristic properties of (hyper)spheres, in which the mean curvature of the second fundamental form occurs…

Study minimal annuli in a slab, estimating their area.

The conformal parameterisation of a minimal surface is harmonic. Therefore, a minimal surface is a critical point of both the energy functional and the area functional. In this paper, we compare the Morse index of a minimal surface as a critical point of the area functional with its Morse index as a critical point of t…

Study counts minimal Lagrangians in hyperbolic surfaces with precise growth rate.

We show that an appropriate generalization of the oriented area function is a perfect Morse function on the space of three-dimensional configurations of an equilateral polygonal linkage with odd number of edges. Therefore cyclic equilateral polygons (which appear as Morse points) are interpreted as independent generato…

The study examines metrics with unit volume or area on manifolds with boundaries, finding critical points and solving curvature problems.

We develop a bubble tree construction and prove compactness results for $W^{2,2}$ branched conformal immersions of closed Riemann surfaces, with varying conformal structures whose limit may degenerate, in a compact Riemannian manifold with uniformly bounded areas and Willmore energies. The compactness property is appli…

The excluded area between a pair of two-dimensional hard particles with given relative orientation is the region in which one particle cannot be located due to the presence of the other particle. The magnitude of the excluded area as a function of the relative particle orientation plays a major role in the determinatio…

We are interested in the maximum value achieved by the systole function over all complete finite area hyperbolic surfaces of a given signature $(g,n)$. This maximum is shown to be strictly increasing in terms of the number of cusps for small values of $n$. We also show that this function is greater than a function that…

Paper proves Harnack inequality for $f$-mean curvature flow.

We consider the Willmore functional on graphs, with an additional penalization of the area where the curvature is non-zero. Interpreting the penalization parameter as a Lagrange multiplier, this corresponds to the Willmore functional with a constraint on the area where the graph is flat. Sending the penalization parame…

An area-preserving diffeomorphism of an annulus has an "action function" which measures how the diffeomorphism distorts curves. The average value of the action function over the annulus is known as the Calabi invariant of the diffeomorphism, while the average value of the action function over a periodic orbit of the di…

The paper proves rigidity theorems for area widths of Riemannian manifolds.

We determine the equilibria of a rigid loop in the plane, subject to the constraints of fixed length and fixed enclosed area. Rigidity is characterized by an energy functional quadratic in the curvature of the loop. We find that the area constraint gives rise to equilibria with remarkable geometrical properties: not on…

This is the last of a series of three papers in which we give a new, shorter proof of a slightly improved version of Almgren's partial regularity of area minimizing currents in Riemannian manifolds. Here we perform a blow-up analysis deducing the regularity of area minimizing currents from that of Dir-minimizing multip…

New method to bound Laplacian eigenvalues of geodesic balls.

In this paper, we prove that for any closed 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with trivial first homology group, if the Ricci curvature $|Ric|\leq3$, the diameter $diam(M)\leq D$ and the volume $vol(M)>v>0$, then the area of a smallest 2-dimensional stationary integral varifold in $M$ is bounded by F(v,D), for some…

Study uses renormalized area to determine metric expansion from minimal surfaces.

In this article, we investigate the geometry of critical metrics of the volume functional on an $n$-dimensional compact manifold with (possibly disconnected) boundary. We establish sharp estimates to the mean curvature and area of the boundary components of critical metrics of the volume functional on a compact manifol…

P. Papasoglu asked in [Pap13] whether for any Riemannian 3-disk $M$ with diameter $d$, boundary area $A$ and volume $V$, there exists a homotopy $S_t$ contracting the boundary to a point so that the area of $S_t$ is bounded by $f(d,A,V)$ for some function $f$. He further asks whether it is possible to subdivide $M$ by …

We express two CR invariant surface area elements in terms of quantities in pseudohermitian geometry. We deduce the Euler-Lagrange equations of the associated energy functionals. Many solutions are given and discussed. In relation to the singular CR Yamabe problem, we show that one of the energy functionals appears as …

The paper proves the behavior of the second fundamental form for Kaehler submanifolds in Euclidean space.