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New convex programs solve minimal-area problems on Riemann surfaces.

Researchers find minimal-area metrics on surfaces with constraints.

Minimal area of spun trefoil knot is found in 4D cubical space.

We describe the asymptotic behavior of minimal area submanifolds in product spacetimes of an asymptotically hyperbolic space times a compact internal manifold. In particular, we find that unlike the case of a minimal area submanifold just in an asymptotically hyperbolic space, the internal part of the boundary submanif…

Proves a conjecture about metrics and minimal area enclosures.

Stationary polyhedral varifolds minimize area in two senses.

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing area subject to a volume constraint in a given convex set.

Sharp inequalities for curved surfaces and cones.

This paper introduces a geometrically constrained variational problem for the area functional. We consider the area restricted to the langrangian surfaces of a Kaehler surface, or, more generally, a symplectic 4-manifold with suitable metric, and study its critical points and in particular its minimizers. We apply this…

The minimal area of Finsler disks with minimizing geodesics is at least 6/π r^2.

We identify the Variational Principle governing inifinity-Harmonic maps, that is solutions to the Infinity-Laplacian. The system was first derived in the limit of the p-Laplacian as p->inifinity in [K2] and is recently studied in [K3]. Here we show that it is the "Euler-Lagrange PDE" of vector-valued Calculus of Variat…

An infinite sequence of commuting nonpolynomial contact symmetries of the two-dimensional minimal surface equation is constructed. Local and nonlocal conservation laws for $n$-dimensional minimal area surface equation are obtained by using the Noether identity.

Plateau's problem is to find a surface with minimal area spanning a given boundary. In 1960, Reifenberg and Adams developed a definition for "span" using Čech homology, and variants of this definition have been used ever sense. However, limitations of Čech homology resulted in the lack of a natural definition for a bou…

The paper finds minimal-area metrics on polygons with multiple crossing geodesics.

For k>6, we determine the minimal area of a compact hyperbolic surface, and an oriented compact hyperbolic surface that can be tiled by embedded regular triangles of angle 2π/k. Based on this, all the cases of equality in Laszlo Fejes Toth's triangle bound for hyperbolic surfaces are described.

Study counts minimal surfaces in curved 3D spaces, finding hyperbolic space minimizes area.

In this paper, we study closed embedded minimal hypersurfaces in a Riemannian $(n+1)$-manifold ($2\le n\le 6$) that minimize area among such hypersurfaces. We show they exist and arise either by minimization techniques or by min-max methods: they have index at most $1$. We apply this to obtain a lower area bound for su…

We consider partial matchings, which are finite graphs consisting of edges and vertices of degree zero or one. We consider transformations between two states of partial matchings. We introduce a method of presenting a transformation between partial matchings. We introduce the notion of the lattice presentation of a par…

Some optimization problems coming from the Differential Geometry, as for example, the minimal submanifolds problem and the harmonic maps problem are solved here via interior solutions of appropriate multitime optimal control problems. Section 1 underlines some science domains where appear multitime optimal control prob…

New bounds found for minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Let N be a complete, homogeneously regular Riemannian manifold of dimension greater than 2 and let M be a compact submanifold of N. Let $Σ$ be a compact orientable surface with boundary. We show that for any continuous $f: (Σ, \partial Σ) \rightarrow (N, M)$ for which the induced homomorphism on certain fundamental gro…

New proof of Bishop's theorem using soap bubbles with singularities.

Physicists believe, with some justification, that there should be a correspondence between familiar properties of Newtonian gravity and properties of solutions of the Einstein equations. The Positive Mass Theorem (PMT), first proved over twenty years ago \cite{SchoenYau79b,Witten81}, is a remarkable testament to this f…

New metric defines surface shapes, minimizing area and angle distortions.

Compact hypersurfaces minimize area in convex cones with free boundary.

In this second part of a series of papers on the long-time behavior of Ricci flows with surgery, we establish a bound on the evolution of the infimal area of simplicial complexes inside a 3-manifold under the Ricci flow. This estimate generalizes an area estimate of Hamilton, which we will recall in the first part of t…

In this note, we use a result of Osserman and Schiffer \cite{OS} to give a variational characterization of the catenoid. Namely, we show that subsets of the catenoid minimize area within a geometrically natural class of minimal annuli. To the best of our knowledge, this fact has gone unremarked upon in the literature. …

In 1968, Simons introduced the concept of index for hypersurfaces immersed into the Euclidean sphere S^{n+1}. Intuitively, the index measures the number of independent directions in which a given hypersurface fails to minimize area. The earliest results regarding the index focused on the case of minimal hypersurfaces. …

Plateau's problem is to show the existence of an area minimizing surface with a given boundary, a problem posed by Lagrange in 1760. Experiments conducted by Plateau showed that an area minimizing surface can be obtained in the form of a film of oil stretched on a wire frame, and the problem came to be called Plateau's…

Upper bound found for minimal area in Einstein 4-manifolds.

In this paper we raise the question whether every closed Riemannian manifold has a spine of minimal area, and we answer it affirmatively in the surface case. On constant curvature surfaces we introduce the spine systole, a continuous real function on moduli space that measures the minimal length of a spine in each surf…

This paper embeds surfaces in 3D spheres and balls with minimal area.

String vertices proven in hyperbolic geometry, unique up to transformations.

The paper confirms Yau's conjecture for minimal rotational hypersurfaces.

The paper characterizes a helicoid in a cylinder with minimal area and unique boundary conditions.

Researchers prove a Penrose inequality for spacetime with specific conditions.

We prove that if $(M,g)$ is a topological 3-ball with a $C^4$-smooth Riemannian metric $g$, and mean-convex boundary $\partial M$ then knowledge of least areas circumscribed by simple closed curves $γ\subset \partial M$ uniquely determines the metric $g$, under some additional geometric assumptions. These are that $g$ …

The paper proves generic transversality and regularity for minimal submanifolds and area-minimizing currents.

We study the isoperimetric structure of asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifolds (M,g) that are C^0-asymptotic to Schwarzschild of mass m>0. Refining an argument due to H. Bray we obtain an effective volume comparison theorem in Schwarzschild. We use it to show that isoperimetric regions exist in (M, g) for all suffi…

Venn diagrams are a graphical way to represent a set system. Each of the n sets is represented by a simple closed curve. The n curves subdivide the plane into 2^n open connected regions, each of which represents the intersection of its containing curves' sets. For example, two overlapping circles can divide the plane i…

The paper proves existence of minimal homotopies for immersed planar curves.

New theory for area of Legendrian surfaces, proving smoothness and variational results.

Paper constructs and proves existence of chiral triply-periodic minimal surfaces.

The paper proposes a new way to approximate Riemannian metrics using discrete wall systems.

We survey the status of some decision problems for 3-manifolds and their fundamental groups. This includes the classical decision problems for finitely presented groups (Word Problem, Conjugacy Problem, Isomorphism Problem), and also the Homeomorphism Problem for 3-manifolds and the Membership Problem for 3-manifold gr…

Optimal transport reformulates multiple quantile hedging problem.

Solves four problems related to circle families in the plane.

Solves four problems related to sphere families in 3D space.