Graded identities for hyperbolic surfaces with cusps and cone points.
problem Understanding dilogarithm identities on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Establishing graded versions of Bridgeman's dilogarithm identity.
result Applications to the study of orthogeodesics.
Solves surface problem in 3D light cone.
problem Björling problem for zero mean curvature surfaces in the three-dimensional light cone.
method Solves the Björling problem for zero mean curvature surfaces in the three-dimensional light cone.
result Constructs and classifies all rotational zero mean curvature surfaces.
Classifies surfaces with zero mean curvature in a light cone.
problem Classifying surfaces with zero mean curvature in a light cone.
method Examined geodesics and screw motions, used Weierstrass representations.
result Complete classification of ruled zero mean curvature surfaces.
Study proves uniqueness of hyperbolic cone structures up to isotopy.
problem Determining hyperbolic cone structures on surfaces up to isotopy.
method Analyzes geodesic lengths of specific homotopy classes of curves.
result Thurston metric is well-defined on Teichmüller space of hyperbolic cone surfaces.
We show that a capillary surface in a solid cone, that is, a surface that has constant mean curvature and the boundary of surface meets the boundary of the cone with a constant angle, is radially graphical if the mean curvature is non-positive with respect to the Gauss map pointing toward the domain bounded by the surf…
The paper provides uniform length estimates for trajectories on flat cone surfaces.
problem Estimating the length of trajectories on flat cone surfaces.
method Using self-intersection numbers and constants depending only on the flat metric, the paper focuses on convex flat cone spheres with a positive curvature gap and a fixed number of singularities.
result Uniform two-sided estimates for trajectory lengths on convex flat cone spheres are obtained.
Characterizes surfaces enveloped by rotating cones for CNC machining.
problem Characterizing surfaces enveloped by rotating cones for CNC machining.
method Derives higher-order nonlinear PDEs for enveloping surfaces, including local approximations.
result Characterizations generalize previous work on developable and ruled surfaces.
New method to find surfaces in null cones with constant curvature near black hole indicators.
problem Finding surfaces in null cones with constant curvature near black hole indicators.
method Flow techniques to foliate null cones by surfaces of constant spacetime mean curvature.
result A neighbourhood of stable MOTS in a null cone can be foliated by hypersurfaces of constant spacetime mean curvature.
Anti-de Sitter spacetimes embed cone-metrics as bent Cauchy surfaces.
problem Embedding cone-metrics in anti-de Sitter spacetimes.
method Proving embeddings using Fuchsian representations and GHMC spacetimes.
result Unique embeddings of cone-metrics in GHMC anti-de Sitter spacetimes.
Criterion for surfaces in Heisenberg group to be graphs using flat cones.
problem Characterizing surfaces in Heisenberg group as graphs.
method Using planar cones to define intrinsic rectifiability.
result Criterion for topological surfaces to be intrinsic Lipschitz graphs.
New cones found in sphere foliations, minimizing in most dimensions.
problem Finding new minimizing cones in sphere foliations.
method Analyzing isoparametric foliations and their associated minimal surfaces.
result Most cones over focal submanifolds and products of minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces are minimizing.
Unique minimal surfaces near quadratic cones are identified.
problem Identifying minimal surfaces near quadratic cones.
method Analyzing minimal hypersurfaces inside the unit ball with perturbed boundary conditions.
result Minimal surfaces are uniquely determined by their boundary conditions.
The symplectic cone of a closed oriented 4-manifold is the set of cohomology classes represented by symplectic forms. A well-known conjecture describes this cone for every minimal Kaehler surface. We consider the case of the elliptic surfaces E(n) and focus on a slightly weaker conjecture for the closure of the symplec…
In this note we introduce the notion of the relative symplectic cone. As an application, we determine the symplectic cone of certain T^2-fibrations. In particular, for some elliptic surfaces we verify a conjecture on the symplectic cone of minimal Kaehler surfaces raised by the second author.
Paper proves minimal surfaces near quadratic cones have specific smooth structure.
problem Characterize minimal surfaces near quadratic cones.
method Analyzes n-varifolds in the unit ball close to a minimizing quadratic cone. result Singularities modeled on these cones determine the local structure of nearby minimal surfaces.
Recent progress on minimal surface system and cones in Euclidean spaces.
problem Exploring the Dirichlet problem for minimal surfaces and cones.
method Systematic developments and new families of minimizing cones.
result New families of minimizing cones of different types.
For compact Riemann surfaces, the collar theorem and Bers' partition theorem are major tools for working with simple closed geodesics. The main goal of this paper is to prove similar theorems for hyperbolic cone-surfaces. Hyperbolic two-dimensional orbifolds are a particular case of such surfaces. We consider all cone …
This paper solves minimal surface equations near Hardt-Simon foliations.
problem Minimal surfaces near Hardt-Simon foliations.
method Uses gluing methods to construct minimal surfaces.
result Constructs minimal surfaces over Hardt-Simon surfaces and near quadratic cones.
New minimal hypersurfaces and cones found through linear superposition.
problem Understanding minimal surfaces in Euclidean space.
method Linear superposition principle applied to minimal hypersurfaces and cones.
result New minimal hypersurfaces and cones discovered.
The flow contracts cone divisors on Kähler surfaces to points.
problem Analyzing the conical Kähler-Ricci flow on Hirzebruch surfaces.
method Using the momentum construction of Calabi, the conical Kähler-Ricci flow is studied on Hirzebruch surfaces.
result The flow either converges to a sphere or a single point, or contracts the cone divisor to a single point.
Constructs currents and heights on K3 surfaces.
problem Understanding the geometry and arithmetic of K3 surfaces.
method Constructs canonical positive currents and heights on K3 surfaces, equivariant for automorphism group.
result Continuous family of currents and heights defined over an enlarged boundary of the ample cone.
Sharp inequalities for curved surfaces and cones.
problem Optimizing areas in nonpositively curved spaces.
method Proving inequalities for disks and triangles in cones.
result Minimal area properties for specific shapes in cones.
Flexible metrics found on a genus 2 surface.
problem Identifying non-rigid hyperbolic cone metrics on a genus 2 surface.
method Using a theorem by Erlandsson, Leininger, and Sadanand.
result Nine mapping class group orbits of non-rigid metrics found.
We prove the existence of a minimal diffeomorphism isotopic to the identity between two hyperbolic cone surfaces (Σ,g1) and (Σ,g2) when the cone angles of g1 and g2 are different and smaller than π. When the cone angles of g1 are strictly smaller than the ones of g2, this minimal diffeomorphism is u…
Minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphisms between spherical surfaces are rigid.
problem Rigidity of minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphisms between spherical surfaces.
method Proving that any minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphism between two closed spherical surfaces with cone singularities is an isometry.
result Minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphisms between spherical surfaces are rigid (i.e., they are isometries).
We prove the existence and uniqueness of harmonic maps in degree one homotopy classes of closed, orientable surfaces of positive genus, when the target has conic points with cone angles less than 2π. For a cone point p of cone angle less than or equal π we show that one can minimize, uniquely, in the relative hom…
Minimal surfaces in spheres constructed from symmetry reductions of ODEs.
problem Construct minimal surfaces in spheres with symmetry.
method Doubling links of free-boundary minimal cones in R^(p+q+3) with bi-orthogonal symmetry.
result Existence of minimal embeddings of S^p × S^q × S^1 in S^(p+q+2).
Study path geometries with constant torsion and cone structures.
problem Characterizing path geometries with nontrivial torsion.
method Introducing constant torsion, establishing correspondence with cone structures, describing in terms of integrable systems.
result Path geometries with constant torsion correspond to cone structures on homogeneous ruled surfaces.
The paper studies representations of surface groups into PSL(2,R) and their geometric realizations.
problem Investigating representations of surface groups into PSL(2,R) and their geometric realizations.
method Analyzing hyperbolic cone-structures on surfaces and their relationship with representations.
result Every almost extremal representation of a surface group into PSL(2,R) arises as the holonomy of a hyperbolic cone-structure.
Minimal surfaces' behavior at infinity resolved.
problem Asymptotic behavior of minimal surfaces with quadratic area growth.
method Partial resolution of a conjecture by Meeks.
result Criterion for uniqueness of tangent cones at infinity.
Unified rigidity theorem for Plateau surfaces in Bn.
problem Rigidity of free-boundary minimal surfaces in Bn. method Analyzing conformal free-boundary minimal immersions of Plateau model cones.
result Every conformal free-boundary minimal immersion of the flat T-cone into Bn is congruent to the flat T-cone. Do and Norbury found a so-called differential relation which relates the volume of the moduli space of singular surface with a cone point to that of a smooth surface obtained by forgetting the cone point. Their procedure is valid for cone angles less than π by work of Tan, Wong and Zhang. We study the moduli space of…
We prove the existence of the analog of Lawson's minimal cones for a notion of nonlocal minimal surface introduced by Caffarelli, Roquejoffre and Savin, and establish their stability/instability in low dimensions. In particular we find that there are nonlocal stable minimal cones in dimension 7, in contrast with the ca…
The study of limit cones for multi-Fuchsian representations in (PSL2R)d.
problem Characterizing the structure of limit cones for multi-Fuchsian representations.
method Analysis of normalized multi-lengths and convex cones in R≥0d. result Different regimes of limit cones exist, with some having finite sides and others dense extremal rays.
We prove the existence of a unique maximal surface in each anti-de Sitter (AdS) convex Globally Hyperbolic Maximal (GHM) manifold with particles (that is, with conical singularities along time-like lines) for cone angles less than π. We interpret this result in terms of Teichmüller theory, and prove the existence of …
The paper studies mapping class group actions on character varieties of surfaces.
problem Understanding the dynamics of mapping class group actions on relative extPSL(2,R)-character varieties. method Definition and proof of simple-stability and primitive-stability of representations.
result Holonomies of hyperbolic cone surfaces are simple-stable and primitive-stable.
Study area minimizing currents in conformal cones, solving Dirichlet problems.
problem Area minimizing currents in conformal cones.
method Minimizing problem of area functionals, Dirichlet problem of minimal surface equations.
result Existence and uniqueness of area minimizing currents in a wide class of conformal manifolds.
Paper proves rigidity and index of Y-cones in unit ball.
problem Proving rigidity and index of Y-cones in the unit ball.
method Analyzes conformal and minimal immersions of Y-cones meeting the boundary orthogonally.
result Y-cones are the only free boundary minimal surfaces with Morse index 2(n-2).
Study transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Characterize the cone of transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.
method Use inverse limits and geodesic laminations to describe and construct cones of transverse measures.
result Explicit descriptions and bases of cones of transverse measures exist for many laminations.
The study proves that certain constant mean curvature surfaces in a specific cone are either spheres or horospheres.
problem Characterizing constant mean curvature surfaces in a three-dimensional light cone.
method Analyzing entire constant mean curvature graphs in the light cone Q+3 under the condition of bounded Gaussian curvature. result Entire constant mean curvature graphs in the light cone are either horospheres or spheres.
Optimizes the first p-Laplacian eigenvalue on hypersurfaces.
problem Maximizing the first eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian on hypersurfaces. method Equivariant maximization of the first eigenvalue for p-Laplacian on hypersurfaces. result The maximizing surface is either Simons' cone or a C1 hypersurface. Study circular foliations and shear-radius coordinates on hyperbolic cone surfaces.
problem Characterize Teichmüller spaces of hyperbolic cone surfaces.
method Construct circular foliations and shear-radius coordinates on Teichmüller spaces of hyperbolic cone surfaces.
result Shear-radius coordinates provide global coordinates on Teichmüller spaces and converge to specific metrics.
The paper proves regularity for minimal surfaces near polyhedral cones.
problem Understanding the regularity of minimal surfaces near polyhedral cones.
method Adapting Simon's method and establishing C1,α-regularity for minimal varifolds. result Proves C1,α-regularity for minimal varifolds near polyhedral cones. Corrects earlier work on surface orbifold pure braid groups.
problem Proving a four-term exact sequence for surface orbifold pure braid groups.
method Analyzes surface orbifold pure braid groups for all genus ≥ 1, 2D orientable orbifolds with cone points.
result Proves a four-term exact sequence for surface orbifold pure braid groups.
We consider the relationship between hyperbolic cone-manifold structures on surfaces, and algebraic representations of the fundamental group into a group of isometries. A hyperbolic cone-manifold structure on a surface, with all interior cone angles being integer multiples of 2π, determines a holonomy representation …
We consider Ricci flow on a closed surface with cone points. The main result is: given a (nonsmooth) cone metric g_0 over a closed surface there is a smooth Ricci flow g(t) defined for (0,T], with curvature unbounded above, such that g(t) tends to g_0 as t tends to 0. This result means that Ricci flow provides a way fo…
We consider the relationship between hyperbolic cone-manifold structures on surfaces, and algebraic representations of the fundamental group into a group of isometries. A hyperbolic cone-manifold structure on a surface, with all interior cone angles being integer multiples of 2π, determines a holonomy representation …
The paper connects minimal surfaces to cones in a ball.
problem Understanding minimal surfaces with free boundaries.
method Establishing a connection between minimal surfaces and cones.
result Doubly connected minimal surfaces in a ball are catenoids.