Study describes limits of non-collapsing K3 surfaces using algebraic data.
problem Understanding limits of non-collapsing polarized K3 surfaces.
method Explicit description via period mapping and algebro-geometric data.
result Bubbling limits depend solely on algebro-geometric data.
Study shows spectral gaps limit points on surfaces.
problem Understanding spectral gaps on arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyzes closed arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces to find limit points of spectral gaps.
result Limit points of spectral gaps are on the interval [0, 1/4].
Study finds limit points of bass notes on hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Understanding the limit points of bass notes on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Proved using mathematical analysis of arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces.
result Limit points are found to be within the interval [0, 1/4].
Study G-H limits of surfaces with boundary, focusing on same Euler characteristic.
problem Investigate Gromov-Hausdorff limits of compact surfaces with boundary.
method Focus on surfaces with same Euler characteristic, build on previous work on closed surfaces.
result Complete description and topological properties of limit spaces.
Study describes limits of surfaces in a mathematical space.
problem Understanding limits of surfaces in mathematical spaces.
method Completely described Gromov-Hausdorff closure of surfaces.
result Completely described the closure of surfaces.
Study finds a limiting distribution for free path lengths on flat surfaces with circular obstacles.
problem Understanding free path lengths on flat surfaces with circular obstacles.
method Proved the existence of a limiting distribution using radius of obstacles as a parameter.
result Relates the limiting distribution to heights of zippered rectangle decompositions.
Surface groups are uniquely identified by their profinite completions.
problem Identifying surface groups among limit groups.
method Using profinite completions and topology.
result The set of surface words is closed in the profinite topology.
Penrose limit results for specific 3-surfaces in space-time.
problem Understanding Penrose limits for specific geometric configurations.
method Analyzing Penrose limits along null geodesics in umbilic 3-surfaces.
result Penrose limit of a specific 3-surface results in a diagonalisable plane-wave.
This paper proves compactness of conformal Chern-minimal surfaces in Hermitian surfaces.
problem Compactness of conformal Chern-minimal surfaces in Hermitian surfaces.
method Proves compactness through bubble tree limit analysis.
result Compactness of conformal Chern-minimal surfaces is established with bounded area.
Polynomial decay of correlations shown for curved surfaces.
problem Analyzing geodesic flows on curved surfaces.
method Proving polynomial decay of correlations for geodesic flows on nonpositively curved surfaces.
result Polynomial decay of correlations for geodesic flows on nonpositively curved surfaces.
The family of embedded, singly periodic minimal surfaces of Riemann have as limit-surfaces the helicoid, the catenoid, a single plane, or an infinite set of equally-spaced parallel planes.
Study geodesics on K3 surfaces near orbifold limit.
problem Understanding geodesics on K3 surfaces near the orbifold limit.
method Improves metric estimates for K3 surfaces, uses hyperkähler identities.
result Restrictions and existence conditions for stable geodesics.
Characterizes stable minimal capillary surfaces with specific angles.
problem Understanding stable minimal capillary surfaces with near 0 or π angles. method Curvature estimates for sequences of weakly stable minimal capillary surfaces.
result Characterization of tangential limits of stable minimal capillary surfaces.
Study k-positive surface group representations and their degenerations.
problem Understanding the behavior of surface group representations under degenerations.
method Introduced k-positive representations and studied their degenerations using a limit theorem for positively ratioed representations.
result Degenerations of k-positive representations can lead to limits that are at least (k-3)-positive and irreducible limits are (k-1)-positive.
In this paper we prove some general results on constant mean curvature lamination limits of certain sequences of compact surfaces Mn embedded in R3 with constant mean curvature Hn and fixed finite genus, when the boundaries of these surfaces tend to infinity. Two of these theorems generalize to the non…
We consider harmonic diffeomorphisms to a fixed hyperbolic target Y, from a family of domain Riemann surfaces degenerating along a Teichmüller ray. We use the work of Minsky to show that there is a limiting harmonic map from the conformal limit of the Teichmüller ray, to a crowned hyperbolic surface. The target surfa…
New minimal surfaces derived from helicoids.
problem Existence of minimal surfaces with specific symmetries.
method Balance equations and nodal limit analysis.
result Existence of new screw motion invariant minimal surfaces.
New foliations found for critical surfaces of Hawking energy, resolving discrepancies.
problem Finding consistent critical surfaces for the Hawking energy in non-totally geodesic spacelike hypersurfaces.
method Constructing a unique local foliation of area constrained critical surfaces of the Hawking energy in the general case of non-totally geodesic spacelike hypersurfaces.
result Discrepancy found in the small sphere limit of the Hawking energy, explained and resolved.
Proves limit curve theorem for incomplete metric spaces, applies to null distance in Lorentzian manifolds.
problem Control of Lorentzian lengths of limit curves in incomplete metric spaces.
method Proves limit curve theorem for incomplete metric spaces and applies to null distance.
result Strong control on Lorentzian lengths of limit curves in Sormani and Vegas' null distance.
The Weierstrass representation for minimal surfaces in R3 provides a flexible method for constructing minimal surfaces of arbitrary genus. The topological limitations of minimal surfaces interfere with this providing a more general geometric modeling tool. Minimal surfaces lie in the larger class of harmoni…
Study geodesic paths on flat surfaces, comparing length and singularity counts.
problem Comparing geometric length and singularity counts on geodesic paths.
method Apply counting limit laws to infinite graphs and then to flat surfaces.
result Statistical comparison of geometric length and singularity counts on geodesic paths.
Researchers create minimal surfaces with Scherk ends and find catenoid limits.
problem Constructing minimal surfaces with specific end types and understanding their limits.
method Constructing families of embedded, singly periodic minimal surfaces with Scherk-type ends and analyzing their limits.
result The limit of the constructed surfaces are catenoid necks connecting planes, determined by Stieltjes polynomials.
GOE statistics emerge from surface moduli space averages.
problem Understanding spectral statistics on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Defined a smooth linear statistic, averaged over moduli space, and analyzed variance.
result GOE statistics are recovered in the large genus and high energy limits.
Study on random surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, focusing on geometric and topological properties.
problem Distribution of nearly geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Invariant measures on the Grassmann bundle G(M) derived from limits of random minimal surfaces.
result Topological limiting measures are totally scarring if M contains a totally geodesic subsurface, while geometrical limiting measures are not.
Motivated by the study of the equilibrium equations for a soap film hanging from a wire frame, we prove a compactness theorem for surfaces with asymptotically vanishing mean curvature and fixed or converging boundaries. In particular, we obtain sufficient geometric conditions for the minimal surfaces spanned by a given…
The paper studies limits of flows on Kähler surfaces, proving convergence to solutions of equations.
problem Analyzing limits of flows on Kähler surfaces and their convergence to solutions of equations.
method Using a property of limits of viscosity subsolutions.
result Proves convergence of flows to weak solutions of the Monge-Ampère equation.
For any m > 0, we construct properly embedded minimal surfaces in H^2 x R with genus zero, infinitely many vertical planar ends and m limit ends. We also provide examples with an infinite countable number of limit ends. All these examples are vertical bi-graphs.
Study shows superdiffusive behavior in geodesic flows on curved surfaces.
problem Understanding the statistical behavior of geodesic flows on curved surfaces.
method Proved nonstandard central limit theorem with superdiffusive normalisation (tlogt)1/2 for geodesic flows on nonpositively curved surfaces. result Geodesic flows exhibit superdiffusive behavior with correlations decaying at rate t−1. Study on Teichmüller rays' asymptotic behavior and distances.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of Teichmüller rays.
method Explicit formula derivation for limiting Teichmüller distance under specific conditions.
result Two Teichmüller rays are asymptotic if their vertical measured foliations are modularly equivalent and their limit surfaces coincide.
We introduce a new technique to solve period problems on minimal surfaces called limit-method. If a family of surfaces has Weierstrass-data converging to the data of a known example, and this presents a transversal solution of periods, then the original family contains a sub-family with closed periods.
Rare Teichmüller disks converge to small limit sets.
problem Understanding limit sets of Teichmüller disks.
method Analyzing Thurston boundary of Teichmüller space.
result Teichmüller disks with smallest limit sets are exceptional.
We prove that capillary surfaces converge to a specific energy density as the angle approaches zero.
problem Understanding the limiting behavior of capillary surfaces as the angle approaches zero.
method Rigorous limiting analysis and application to curvature estimates.
result Capillary area-density converges to the Weiss energy density as the angle tends to zero.
The paper shows Gaussian fluctuations in eigenvalue statistics of random hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Understanding fluctuations in Laplace eigenvalues of random hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyzing fluctuations of linear statistics of Laplace eigenvalues over moduli space of surfaces of large genus.
result The distribution of linear statistics tends to a Gaussian as the genus of surfaces increases.
The authors Balogh-Tyson-Vecchi in arXiv:1604.00180 utilize the Riemannian approximations scheme (H1,<,>L), in the Heisenberg group, introduced by Gromov, to calculate the limits of Gaussian and normal curvatures defined on surfaces of H1 when L→∞. They show that these limits exi…
The limit of energies of a sequence of harmonic maps as their annular domains approach the boundary of moduli space depends upon the boundary point approached. The infinite energy case is associated with limits of images containing ruled surfaces. The finite energy case yields a limit of images, under a suitable topolo…
New examples show strong Kato limits can be branching and not satisfy known conditions.
problem Exploring the boundaries of strong Kato limits and their properties.
method Constructing specific examples of non-collapsed strong Kato limits.
result Found examples of strong Kato limits that are branching and do not satisfy CD(K,∞) or MCP(K,N) conditions. Let (M,g) be a smooth compact Riemannian surface with no boundary. Given a smooth vector field V with finitely many zeroes on M, we study the distribution of the number of tangencies to V of the nodal components of random band-limited functions. It is determined that in the high-energy limit, these obey a unive…
For large genus, spectral gaps on hyperbolic surfaces approach a limit.
problem Understanding spectral gaps on hyperbolic surfaces of large genus.
method Analyzing the maximum of λk−λk−1 over thick parts of moduli spaces. result The maximum of λk−λk−1 approaches 41 for large genus. Minimal surfaces in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group can be constructed by means of a Riemannian approximation scheme, as limit of Riemannian minimal surfaces. We study the regularity of Lipschitz, non-characteristic minimal surfaces which arise as such limits. Our main results are a-priori estimates on the solution…
Minimal surfaces with dihedral symmetry are studied as angles converge to zero.
problem Understanding minimal surfaces with dihedral symmetry as angles approach zero.
method Analyzing the limit of minimal surfaces in wedges with varying angles and using the implicit function theorem.
result New minimal surfaces are discovered and existence proofs are simplified.
We characterize sequences of Kleinian surface groups with convergent subsequences in terms of the asymptotic behavior of the ending invariants of the associated hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Asymptotic behavior of end invariants in a convergent sequence predicts the parabolic locus of the algebraic limit as well as how the a…
Discrete maximal surfaces identified from s-embeddings.
problem Understanding the conformal invariance of the Ising model.
method Introduced a special class of isothermic s-embeddings that correspond to discrete S-maximal surfaces.
result Each S-maximal surface comes with a 1-parameter family of associated surfaces that are isometric.
We show that any grafting ray in Teichmüller space is (strongly) asymptotic to some Teichmüller geodesic ray. As an intermediate step we introduce surfaces that arise as limits of these degenerating Riemann surfaces. Given a grafting ray, the proof involves a Teichmüller ray with a conformally equivalent limit, and bui…
We construct Weierstrass data for higher genus embedded doubly periodic minimal surfaces and present numerical evidence that the associated period problem can be solved. In the orthogonal ends case, there previously was only one known surface for each genus. We illustrate multiple new examples for each genus g>2. In th…
New limits of minimal surface systems have surprising large interior parts.
problem Minimal surface system limits with large interior vertical and non-minimal portions.
method Construction of limits with smallest possible dimension and codimension.
result Limits of minimal surface systems can have surprising large interior parts.
Study smooth linear statistics on random covers of hyperbolic surfaces, showing central limit and variance results.
problem Analyzing fluctuations and energy variance of random covers of compact hyperbolic surfaces.
method Examining fluctuations in a small energy window around a fixed energy level, considering the variance of a typical surface, using a double limit where n and L go to infinity. result Distribution of fluctuations tends to a Gaussian with variance of GOE/GUE, and energy variance of a typical random n-cover is that of GOE/GUE. This paper develops new tools for understanding surfaces with more than one end (and usually, of infinite topology) which properly minimally embed into Euclidean three-space. On such a surface, the set of ends forms a compact Hausdorff space, naturally ordered by the relative heights of the ends in space. One of our ma…
In 1988, Karcher generalized the family of singly periodic Scherk minimal surfaces by constructing, for each natural n≥2, a (2n−3)-parameter family of singly periodic minimal surfaces with genus zero and 2n Scherk-type ends in the quotient, called {\it saddle towers}. They have been recently classified by Pér…