Study on minimal foliations in 3D manifolds with specific conditions.
problem Characterizing minimal foliations in 3D manifolds.
method Analyzing Anosov foliations and their intersections.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for orbit foliation of Anosov flows.
In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flows starting from all non-minimal leaves of the isoparametric foliation given by a certain kind of solvable group action on a symmetric space of non-compact type. We prove that the mean curvature flow starting from each non-minimal leaf of the foliation exists in infin…
Study on harmonic maps on weighted Riemannian foliations.
problem Characterize harmonic maps on weighted foliations.
method Analyze transversally f-harmonic and (F,F′)f-harmonic maps. result Equivalence of transversally f-harmonic and (F,F′)f-harmonic maps in minimal foliations. We show that any noncompact oriented surface is homeomorphic to the leaf of a minimal foliation of a closed 3-manifold. These foliations are (or are covered by) suspensions of continuous minimal actions of surface groups on the circle. Moreover, the above result is also true for any prescription of a countable family…
Minimal action on universal circle for foliations on 3-manifolds.
problem Action of fundamental group on universal circle of foliations.
method Analyzes uniform foliations on 3-manifolds, proving minimality and transitivity.
result Action is minimal and transitive on pairs of different points.
Minimal hyperbolic foliations on 3-manifolds have non-simply connected generic leaves.
problem Characterizing surfaces with minimal hyperbolic foliations.
method Analyzing codimension one foliations on closed 3-manifolds.
result Noncompact surfaces satisfying a specific condition are homeomorphic to the leaf of a minimal foliation with non-simply connected generic leaf.
Proof shows cones minimize certain geometric functionals.
problem Minimizing cones over spheres in geometric functionals.
method Proof by foliation analysis of cone leaves.
result Cone minimizes functionals for SkimesSl. The paper solves a 5-manifold foliation problem using a Sasaki-Ricci flow.
problem Solving foliation singularities on Sasakian 5-manifolds.
method Applying the Sasaki-Ricci flow to resolve cyclic quotient foliation singularities.
result Proves a Sasaki analogue of the analytic minimal model program.
Study on Lie groups' conformal foliations and harmonic morphisms.
problem Characterizing minimal conformal foliations on Lie groups.
method Analyzing left-invariant metrics and foliations on Lie groups.
result Minimal conformal foliations on Lie groups are fibres of harmonic morphisms.
Minimal conformal foliations on Lie groups are shown to be fibres of harmonic morphisms.
problem Characterizing minimal conformal foliations on Lie groups.
method Analyzing left-invariant semi-Riemannian metrics and harmonic morphisms.
result Minimal conformal foliations of codimension two are fibres of complex-valued harmonic morphisms.
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.
Lie foliations with symmetric leaves are smoothly conjugate to homogeneous ones.
problem Characterizing Lie foliations with symmetric leaves.
method Analyzing the rigidity of Lie foliations with locally symmetric leaves.
result Lie foliations with symmetric leaves are smoothly conjugate to homogeneous ones.
The 3-sphere has either 2 minimal 2-spheres or an optimal foliation by 2-spheres.
problem Proving existence of minimal 2-spheres or optimal foliations in arbitrary Riemannian 3-spheres.
method Analyzing the properties of arbitrary Riemannian metrics on 3-spheres.
result The existence of at least two minimal 2-spheres or an optimal foliation in 3-spheres with arbitrary metrics.
New families of Lie groups with special foliations discovered.
problem Characterizing left-invariant foliations on semi-Riemannian Lie groups.
method Classifying foliations generated by specific subgroups.
result Constructing new families of Lie groups with conformal minimal foliations.
We deal with minimal surfaces in the unit sphere S3, which are one-parameter families of circles. Minimal surfaces in R3 foliated by circles were first investigated by Riemann, and a hundred years later Lawson constructed examples of such surfaces in S3. We prove that in S3 there are only two types of mini…
In this article, we investigate the stability of leaves of minimal foliations of arbitrary codimension. We also study relations between Jacobi fields and vector fields which preserves a foliation and we use these results to Killing fields.
The purpose of this paper is to show that any extension of a minimal Lie foliation on a compact manifold is a transversaly Riemannian g\h- foliation with trivial normal bundle. This result permits to classify the extensions of a minimal Lie foliation on a compact manifold from the Lie subgroups of its Lie group.
The paper characterizes gaps in minimal foliations on tori using energy criteria.
problem Characterizing gaps in minimal foliations on tori.
method Introduced an energy to study min-max theory and applied it to Almgren-Pitts min-max theory.
result For a generic metric, if a lamination contains a gap, there exists a non-area-minimizing minimal hypersurface inside the gap.
Paper constructs flows converging to cones and foliations.
problem Understanding mean curvature flow convergence to cones and foliations.
method Constructs a family of mean curvature flows converging to cones and foliations under specific conditions.
result Flow converges to area minimizing, strictly stable hypercone and Hardt-Simon foliation of the cone.
The paper constructs foliations of minimal surfaces in negatively curved 3-manifolds.
problem Constructing foliations of minimal surfaces in negatively curved 3-manifolds.
method Deformations of totally geodesic foliations, using Grassmann bundle and negatively curved metrics.
result The foliations of minimal surfaces are deformations of totally geodesic foliations.
Piecewise Euclidean structures (identified solid Euclidean polyhedra) on topological 3-dimensional manifolds and pseudo-manifolds are constructed so that they admit pseudo-foliations, a generalized type of foliation. The construction of non-manifold point neighborhoods is done to preserve as much of the geometric, and …
The paper proves the existence of area-minimizing hypersurfaces in AF manifolds of higher dimensions.
problem Existence of area-minimizing hypersurfaces in AF manifolds with arbitrary dimension and ends.
method Positive mass theorem for AF manifolds with arbitrary ends and global behavior for hypersurfaces in AF manifolds of dimension ≤ 8.
result Existence and behavior of area-minimizing hypersurfaces in AF manifolds of higher dimensions.
Study shows how certain foliations in unit tangent bundles behave.
problem Characterizing behavior of foliations in unit tangent bundles.
method Analyzing intersections and properties of foliations.
result Certain partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms are collapsed Anosov flows.
Minimal hypersurfaces in spheres generated by isoparametric foliations are found.
problem Existence of minimal hypersurfaces in spheres generated by isoparametric foliations.
method Generalized rotational ansatz formed by the union of homothetic copies of isoparametric leaves, reducing the minimal surface equation to an ordinary differential equation.
result Closed embedded minimal hypersurfaces of topological type S1imesM are found for any isoparametric hypersurface M⊂Sn. The study classifies natural almost Hermitian structures on specific Lie groups.
problem Classifying natural almost Hermitian structures on conformally foliated Lie groups.
method Examining 4-dimensional Riemannian Lie groups with a 2-dimensional conformal foliation and minimal leaves, constructing new examples of multi-dimensional structures.
result Constructing several new multi-dimensional examples of almost Kähler, integrable, and Kähler structures.
Extends isoparametric foliations and area-minimizing cones in product manifolds.
problem Generalizing isoparametric foliations and area-minimizing cones in SnimesSn. method Analyzes isoparametric foliations and area-minimizing cones, extending known results.
result Extends known area-minimizing cones to codimension-two cases, yielding infinitely many families of area-minimizing subcones.
The paper proves new comparison theorems for sub-Laplacian in foliations with minimal leaves.
problem Proving comparison theorems for sub-Laplacian in Riemannian foliations with minimal leaves.
method Using Riemannian foliations with minimal leaves, the paper proves comparison theorems for the sub-Laplacian.
result The comparison theorems yield a Bonnet-Myers type theorem, stochastic completeness, and Lipschitz regularization property for the sub-Riemannian semigroup.
The paper proves foliation of area-minimizing hypersurfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds.
problem Proving foliation of area-minimizing hypersurfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds.
method Demonstrates foliation by area-minimizing hypersurfaces, proving the existence of hypersurfaces asymptotic to Cartesian coordinate hyperplanes.
result Verifies a version of the Schoen Conjecture for asymptotically flat manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and positive mass.
The volume of a k-dimensional foliation F in a Riemannian manifold Mn is defined as the mass of image of the Gauss map, which is a map from M to the Grassmann bundle of k-planes in the tangent bundle. Generalizing a construction by Gluck and Ziller, "singular" foliations by 3-spheres are constructed on…
Using the complex parabolic rotations of holomorphic null curves in C4, we transform minimal surfaces in Euclidean space R3⊂R4 to a family of degenerate minimal surfaces in Euclidean space R4. Applying our deformation to holomorphic null curves in ${…
We describe several methods to construct minimal foliations by hyperbolic surfaces on closed 3-manifolds, and discuss the properties of the examples thus obtained.
Proves a principle for one-phase Bernoulli problem minimizers.
problem One-phase Bernoulli problem minimizers.
method Strong maximum principle, Alt-Caffarelli functional, Hardt-Simon-type foliation.
result Constructs a foliation for global minimizers.
Associated with isoparametric foliations of unit spheres, there are two classes of minimal surfaces − minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces and focal submanifolds. By virtue of their rich structures, we find new series of minimizing cones. They are cones over focal submanifolds and cones over suitable products among th…
Let F be a transversely orientable codimension one minimal foliation without vanishing cycles of a manifold M. We show that if the fundamental group of each leaf of F has polynomial growth of degree k for some non-negative integer k, then the foliation F is without holonomy.
Study conformal foliations on Lie groups, finding new families and harmonic morphisms.
problem Classifying conformal foliations on Lie groups with minimal leaves.
method Analyzing left-invariant foliations generated by specific subgroups.
result New multi-dimensional families of Lie groups with conformal foliations.
It is well-known that any isotopically connected diffeomorphism group G of a manifold determines uniquely a singular foliation $\F_G$. A one-to-one correspondence between the class of singular foliations and a subclass of diffeomorphism groups is established. As an illustration of this correspondence it is shown that…
New Lie groupoid and algebroid constructed for octonionic Hopf foliation.
problem No known Lie group action generates the singular octonionic Hopf foliation.
method Constructs a G2-equivariant Lie groupoid and Lie algebroid.
result Minimal Lie algebroid and groupoid generate the singular octonionic Hopf foliation.
In this paper, we prove Kirchberg inequalities for any kahler spin foliations. Their limiting cases are then characterized as being transversal minimal Einstein foliations. The key point is to introduce the transversal kahlerian twistor operators.
This paper deals with the question of analytic continuation of holonomy germs of holomorphic foliations. We prove that for a quasi-minimal Riccati foliation of the complex projective plane, any holonomy germ of the foliation between complex projective lines can be analytically continued along a generic Brownian path.
We obtain geometric characterizations of isospectral minimal Riemannian Legendre foliations on compact Sasakian manifolds of constant φ-sectional curvature.
In this paper, we prove that minimal hypersurfaces when n≥3 and nonzero constant mean curvature hypersurfaces when n≥2 foliated by spheres in parallel horizontal hyperplanes in Hn×R must be rotationally symmetric.
Study mean curvature flow in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, proving foliations and existence of minimal surfaces.
problem Existence and properties of foliations in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Mean curvature flow, surgery, min-max theory, foliations, continuity of minimal surfaces.
result Existence of smooth entire foliations in quasi-Fuchsian and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
On a Riemannian 2-torus (T2,g) we study the geodesic flow in the case of low complexity described by zero topological entropy. We show that this assumption implies a nearly integrable behavior. In our previous paper \cite{GK} we already obtained that the asymptotic direction and therefore also the rotation number ex…
Study compatible and associated metrics for contact-symplectic structures, showing geodesic integral curves and minimal leaf properties.
problem Characteristics foliations of metric contact-symplectic structures.
method Analysis of compatible and associated metrics, study of geodesic integral curves, and minimal leaf properties.
result Integral curves of the Reeb vector field are geodesics for any compatible metric, and associated metrics share a common volume element.
In this article, we show that, for any compact 3-manifold, there is a C1 volume-minimizing one-dimensional foliation. More generally, we show the existence of mass-minimizing rectifiable sections of sphere bundles without isolated "pole points" in the base manifold. This same analysis is used to show that the exam…
The paper classifies natural almost Hermitian structures on Lie groups with minimal conformal leaves.
problem Classifying natural almost Hermitian structures on Lie groups with minimal conformal leaves.
method Analyzing Lie groups with a 2-dimensional conformal foliation and classifying structures based on Lie algebra properties.
result 16 multi-dimensional almost Kähler families, 18 integrable families, and 11 Kähler families were constructed.
Minimal hypersurfaces scarring along a fixed one in certain manifolds.
problem Scarring of minimal hypersurfaces in specific manifolds.
method Generic scarring phenomenon for minimal hypersurfaces in thick-at-infinity manifolds with thin foliation.
result Existence of sequences of minimal hypersurfaces scarring along a fixed one, with diverging area and renormalized convergence to the fixed hypersurface.
Study foliations on Riemannian manifolds with specific vector fields, focusing on geometric properties.
problem Investigate foliations transverse to closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds.
method Analyze conditions for totally geodesic leaves and geometric constraints on foliations.
result Characterize totally geodesic foliations and classify minimal and constant mean curvature foliations.