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New minimal annuli found in unit ball, solving old problems.

In $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ there is a two-parameter family of properly embedded minimal annuli foliated by circles. In this paper we show that this family contains all properly embedded minimal annuli. We use the description of minimal annuli in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ by periodic harmonic maps $G : \…

Minimal annuli constructed in PSL2 via variational method.

We construct a one-parameter family of properly embedded minimal annuli in the Heisenberg group Nil_3 endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. These annuli are not rotationally invariant. This family gives a vertical half-space theorem and proves that each complete minimal graph in Nil_3 is entire. Also, the si…

New minimal discs and annuli found in ellipsoids.

The critical catenoid is uniquely determined by certain symmetries of its boundary.

Existence of minimal annuli in 3-sphere with boundary on geodesic spheres.

The study finds many Möbius bands and annuli on toroids.

In this paper we study the moduli space of properly Alexandrov-embedded, minimal annuli in $\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ with horizontal ends. We say that the ends are horizontal when they are graphs of $\mathcal{C}^{2, α}$ functions over $\partial_\infty \mathbb{H}^2$. Contrary to expectation, we show that one can …

Minimal surfaces span periodic curves in 3D space.

We study minimal annuli in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ of finite type by relating them to harmonic maps $\mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{S}^2$ of finite type. We rephrase an iteration by Pinkall-Sterling in terms of polynomial Killing fields. We discuss spectral curves, spectral data and the geometry of the isospectral set…

Constructs minimal surfaces near the boundary of a ball.

We construct two one-parameter families of minimal properly embedded surfaces in the Lie group Sol3 using a Weierstrass-type representation. These surfaces are not invariant by a one-parameter group of ambient isometries. The first one can be viewed as a family of helicoids, and the second one is a family of minimal an…

We explicitly classify all $S^1$-invariant free boundary minimal annuli and Möbius bands in $\mathbb{B}^n$. This classification is obtained from an analysis of the spectrum of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for $S^1$-invariant metrics on the annulus and Möbius band. First, we determine the supremum of the $k$-th normaliz…

Study minimal annuli in a slab, estimating their area.

The study constructs free boundary CMC annuli in spherical and hyperbolic balls.

We consider two natural classes of minimal laminations in three-manifolds. Both classes may be thought of as limits - in different senses - of embedded minimal disks. In both cases, we prove that, under a natural geometric assumption on the three-manifold, the leaves of these laminations are topologically either disks,…

Minimal surfaces reflect across spheres, proving annulus uniqueness.

New minimal surfaces found with spherical curvature lines.

Sharp lower bound found for area of vector fields on spherical annuli.

Constructs minimal annuli with free boundary in hyperbolic 3-space.

Improved flatness in annuli using PDE methods.

We show that after stabilizations of opposite parity and braid isotopy, any two braids in the same topological link type cobound embedded annuli. We use this to prove the generalized Jones conjecture relating the braid index and algebraic length of closed braids within a link type, following a reformulation of the prob…

We prove the existence of free boundary minimal annuli inside suitably convex subsets of three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature $-$ including strictly convex domains of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$.

We construct Colding-Minicozzi limit minimal laminations in open domains in $\rth$ with the singular set of $C^1$-convergence being any properly embedded $C^{1,1}$-curve. By Meeks' $C^{1,1}$-regularity theorem, the singular set of convergence of a Colding-Minicozzi limit minimal lamination ${\cal L}$ is a locally finit…

This paper is the third in a series where we describe the space of all embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a fixed (but arbitrary) closed 3-manifold. In [CM3]-[CM5] we describe the case where the surfaces are topologically disks on any fixed small scale. To describe general planar domains (in [CM6]) we need in …

We study the existence problem for tilted unduloids in $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$. These are singly periodic annuli with constant mean curvature $H>1/2$ in $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$, and the periodicity of these surfaces is with respect to a discrete group of translations along a geodesic that is neither verti…

Constructs minimal surfaces in a 3-ball using PDE gluing.

Study proves uniqueness of certain minimal surfaces in spherical and hyperbolic spaces.

Strict convexity is essential for compact minimal surfaces in curved spaces.

Motivated by the large ammount of results obtained for minimal and positive constant mean curvature surfaces in several ambient spaces, the aim of this paper is to obtain half-space theorems for properly immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. In orde…

New examples show non-rotational annuli in a ball, solving a uniqueness problem.

We present a proof of the generalized Nitsche's conjecture proposed by W.H.Meeks III and H. Rosenberg: For $t\ge 0$, let $P_t$ denote the horizontal plane of height $t$ over the $x_1,x_2$ plane. Suppose that $M \subset R^3$ is a minimal annulus with the boundary contains in $P_0$ and that $M$ intersects every $P_t$ in …

Study investigates minimal surfaces in spherical caps, extending previous findings.

Study links with annuli using sutured Floer homology.

New methods compare Steklov eigenspaces of free boundary minimal surfaces in balls.

Study on exotic smooth embeddings of surfaces in 4-manifolds, revealing different properties and complexities.

Paper shows how to embed Möbius bands with many twists and small aspect ratios.

We give a sufficient condition for an open 3-manifold to admit a decomposition along properly embedded open annuli and tori, generalizing the toric splitting of Jaco-Shalen and Johannson.

Study on surfaces minimizing elastic energy with boundary constraints.

We show that an immersed minimal annulus, with two planar boundary curves along which the surface meets these planes with constant contact angle, is part of the catenoid.

The article constructs helicoidal and catenoidal minimal surfaces in a Lie group.

We study classical solutions to the one-phase free boundary problem in which the free boundary consists of smooth curves and the components of the positive phase are simply-connected. We show that if two components of the free boundary are close, then the solution locally resembles an entire solution discovered by Haus…

Proves uniqueness of catenoid-like shapes in a ball.

We study constant mean curvature 1/2 surfaces in H2xR that admit a compactification of the mean curvature operator. We show that a particular family of complete entire graphs over H2 admits a structure of infinite dimensional manifold with local control on the behaviors at infinity. These graphs also appear to have a h…

Classifies essential annuli in a genus two handlebody exterior.

Paper solves a conjecture about minimal surfaces using sphere intersections and Weierstrass data.

We study the way a strongly irreducible Heegaard surface $Σ$ intersects a knot exterior $X$ embedded in a 3-manifold, and show that if $Σ\cap \partial X$ consists of simple closed curves which are essential in both $Σ$ and $\partial X$, then the intersection $X \cap Σ$ consists of meridional annuli only. As an applicat…