arXiv research

The study proves the existence of free boundary minimal disks in convex regions.

Study constructs disks with curved boundaries in a 3D ball.

Proves existence of non-planar minimal disks in ellipsoids.

The study finds at least 2 free-boundary minimal disks in convex 3-balls.

In this paper, we establish a min-max theory for constructing minimal disks with free boundary in any closed Riemannian manifold. The main result is an effective version of the partial Morse theory for minimal disks with free boundary established by Fraser. Our theory also includes as a special case the min-max theory …

Study calculates first $p$-widths of unit disk.

We perform a replacement procedure in order to produce a free boundary minimal surface whose area achieves the min-max value over all disk sweepouts of a manifold whose boundary lie in a submanifold. Our result is based on a proof of the convexity of the energy for free boundary harmonic maps and a generalization of Co…

Paper studies minimal surfaces in curved spaces, proving existence and properties.

Inverse mean curvature flow converges to a disk in hyperbolic space.

Study rigidity of minimal disks in specific 3-manifolds.

The paper proves the existence of constant mean curvature disks with capillary boundary conditions.

The paper classifies CMC free boundary hypersurfaces in rotational domains.

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

Paper proves rigidity of 3-manifolds with boundary using modified Hawking mass.

It is proved by Brendle in [4] that the equatorial disk $D^k$ has least area among $k$-dimensional free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean ball $B^n$. By comparing the excess of free boundary minimal surfaces with the excess of the associated cones over the boundary, we prove the existence of a gap for the area…

The paper proves the existence and properties of geodesics on convex surfaces.

We show that a minimal disk satisfying the free boundary condition in a constant curvature ball of any dimension is totally geodesic. We weaken the condition to parallel mean curvature vector in which case we show that the disk lies in a three dimensional constant curvature submanifold and is totally umbilic. These res…

We prove that in Euclidean space $R^{n+1}$ any compact immersed nonnegatively curved hypersurface $M$ with free boundary on the sphere $S^n$ is an embedded convex topological disk. In particular, when the $m^{th}$ mean curvature of $M$ is constant, for any $1\leq m\leq n$, $M$ is a spherical cap or an equatorial disk.

Paper proves rigidity of minimal disks in 3-balls with non-negative Ricci curvature.

We construct a new family of high genus examples of free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean unit 3-ball by desingularizing the intersection of a coaxial pair of a critical catenoid and an equatorial disk. The surfaces are constructed by singular perturbation methods and have three boundary components. They are …

Unified rigidity theorem for Plateau surfaces in $\mathbb{B}^n$.

In this note we use the strong maximum principle and integral estimates prove two results on minimal hypersurfaces $F:M^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with free boundary on the standard unit sphere. First we show that if $F$ is graphical with respect to any Killing field, then $F(M^n)$ is a flat disk. This result is ind…

In a recent paper A. Fraser and R. Schoen have proved the existence of free boundary minimal surfaces $Σ\_n$ in $B^3$ which have genus $0$ and $n$ boundary components, for all $n \geq 3$. For large $n$, we give an independent construction of $Σ\_n$ and prove the existence of free boundary minimal surfaces $\tilde Σ\_n…

Paper proves rigidity and index of Y-cones in unit ball.

New functionals defined for free boundary minimal submanifolds in higher dimensions.

In this paper we study the mean curvature flow of embedded disks with free boundary on an embedded cylinder or generalised cone of revolution, called the support hypersurface. We determine regions of the interior of the support hypersurface such that initial data is driven to a curvature singularity in finite time or e…

The paper develops a theory for free boundary minimal surfaces with genus at least one.

We study deformations of free boundary constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces whose Jacobi operator is degenerate due to symmetries of the ambient space. The value of the mean curvature and the ambient metric are allowed to vary simultaneously, provided that the infinitesimal ambient symmetries change smoothly. We…

We show that, among free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball in the three-dimensional Euclidean space, the flat equatorial disk and the critical catenoid are characterised by a pinching condition on the length of their second fundamental form.

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

We prove that the area of a free boundary minimal surface $Σ^2 \subset B^n$, where $B^n$ is a geodesic ball contained in a round hemisphere $\mathbb{S}^n_+$, is at least as big as that of a geodesic disk with the same radius as $B^n$; equality is attained only if $Σ$ coincides with such a disk. More generally, we prove…

We prove a local splitting theorem for three-manifolds with mean convex boundary and scalar curvature bounded from below that contain certain locally area-minimizing free boundary surfaces. Our methods are based on those of Micallef and Moraru. We use this local result to establish a global rigidity theorem for area-mi…

In this paper we prove that a flat free-boundary minimal $n$-disk, $n\geq3$, in the unit Euclidean ball $B^{n+1}$ is the unique compact free boundary minimal hypersurface in the unit Euclidean ball which the squared norm of the second fundamental form is less than either $\frac{n^2}{4}$ or $\frac{(n-2)^2}{4|x|^2}$. Mor…

Two minimal hypersurfaces in a ball intersect in any half-ball.

In this article, we show that the critical catenoid, as a free boundary minimal surface of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$, has index $4$. We also prove that a free boundary minimal surface of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$, that is not a flat disk, has index at least $4$.

Proves existence of mean curvature flow with surgery for free boundary surfaces.

Study finds a minimal surface in a ball with specific properties.

We consider a free boundary problem for the Willmore functional. Given a smooth domain $Ω$ in ${\mathbb R}^3$, we construct Willmore disks wich are critical in the class of surfaces meeting $\partial Ω$ orthogonally along their boundary and having small prescribed area. Using rescaling we first obtain constrained solut…

In this survey, we discuss some recent results on free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean unit-ball. The subject has been a very active field of research in the past few years due to the seminal work of Fraser and Schoen on the extremal Steklov eigenvalue problem. We review several different techniques of const…

The study finds the optimal metrics for free boundary minimal surfaces in spherical caps.

For each integer $g\geq 1$ we use variational methods to construct in the unit $3$-ball $B$ a free boundary minimal surface $Σ_g$ of symmetry group $\mathbb{D}_{g+1}$. For $g$ large, $Σ_g$ has three boundary components and genus $g$. As $g\rightarrow\infty$ the surfaces $Σ_g$ converge as varifolds to the union of the d…

The paper proves a disk's energy minimizer is holomorphic and calculates its Morse index.

The paper divides minimal hypersurfaces in a ball into two parts.

In this paper we provide a pinching condition for the characterization of the totally geodesic disk and the rotational annulus among minimal surfaces with free boundary in geodesic balls of three-dimensional hyperbolic space and hemisphere. The pinching condition involves the length of the second fundamental form, the …

The study finds minimal surfaces in complex space forms are often totally geodesic.

New method proves existence of constant mean curvature disks on convex surfaces.

In continuing the study of harmonic mapping from 2-dimensional Riemannian simplicial complexes in order to construct minimal surfaces with singularity, we obtain an a-priori regularity result concerning the real analyticity of the free boundary curve. The free boundary is the singular set along which three disk-type mi…

In this paper we obtain an analogue of Toponogov theorem in dimension 3 for compact manifolds $M^3$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary $\partial M$. Here we obtain a sharp upper bound for the length $L(\partialΣ)$ of the boundary $\partialΣ$ of a free boundary minimal surface $Σ^2$ in $M^3$ i…