arXiv research

We extend our previous definition of quasi-local mass to 2-spheres whose Gauss curvature is negative and prove its positivity.

We prove a global smooth isometric immersion for negatively curved surfaces with finite total curvature.

In this paper the method of compensated compactness is applied to the problem of isometric immersion of a two dimensional Riemannian manifold with negative Gauss curvature into three dimensional Euclidean space. Previous applications of the method to this problem have required decay of order $t^{-4}$ in the Gauss curva…

The isometric immersion of two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds or surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. When the Gauss curvature is negative, the isometric immersion problem is considered in this paper through the Gauss-Codazzi system for the second fundam…

Researchers solve a complex equation to embed graphs with negative curvature.

Paper bounds total geodesic curvature using boundary data in hyperbolic gravity.

Study on rotational hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature.

Study relates Gaussian curvature signs to cuspidal edge types and geometric invariants.

Study curve shortening flows on specific surfaces, proving properties and existence.

In discrete differential geometry, it is widely believed that the discrete Gaussian curvature of a polyhedral vertex star equals the algebraic area of its Gauss image. However, no complete proof has yet been described. We present an elementary proof in which we compare, for a particular normal vector, its winding numbe…

We construct smooth metrics on 2-manifold with nonpositive Gauss curvature which cannot be (C^3) locally isometrically embedded in R^3. Moreover, the Gauss curvature of the metric can be made negative except for one point.

We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with constant non-negative curvature is foliated by compact spacelike surfaces with co…

As an interesting application of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory and our work on the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass (Ge, Wang, Wu), we obtain a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat graphs in $\R^{n+1}$ under a condition that $R+αL_2$ is non-negative, where $R$ is the scalar curvature, $α\in\R$ a constant and $L_2$ t…

Study finds solutions to flows by negative curvature powers.

Study proves uniqueness of corrugated negatively curved immersions in differential geometry.

The Gauss-Bonnet inequality holds for certain non-aspherical manifolds up to dimension five.

The paper finds convex hypersurfaces with specific curvature properties.

We prove nonexistence of nonconstant local minimizers for a class of functionals, which typically appears in the scalar two-phase field model, over a smooth N-dimensional Riemannian manifold without boundary with non-negative Ricci curvature. Conversely for a class of surfaces possessing a simple closed geodesic along …

In this paper we study constant positive Gauss curvature $K$ surfaces in the 3-sphere $S^3$ with $0<K<1$ as well as constant negative curvature surfaces. We show that the so-called normal Gauss map for a surface in $S^3$ with Gauss curvature $K<1$ is Lorentz harmonic with respect to the metric induced by the second fun…

No isometric immersion of hyperbolic space into Euclidean space.

In this paper we extend Efimov's Theorem by proving that any complete surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Gauss curvature bounded above by a negative constant outside a compact set has finite total curvature, finite area and is properly immersed. Moreover, its ends must be asymptotic to half-lines. We also give a partial so…

A new method is presented for solving the Gauss-Codazzi equations for a compact Riemann surface to be immersed in a 3-manifold of constant curvature. In the negative curvature case, the moduli for such embeddings are cohomology classes of (0,2) forms.

One-harmonic maps from a curved surface to hyperbolic plane have specific interior properties.

We prove Minding's Theorem for $C^2$-immersions with constant negative Gauss curvature. As a Corollary we also prove Minding's Theorem for $C^{1M}$-immersions in the sense of \cite{DS}.

We prove the existence of $C^{1,1}$ isometric immersions of several classes of metrics on surfaces $(\mathcal{M},g)$ into the three-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$, where the metrics $g$ have strictly negative curvature. These include the standard hyperbolic plane, generalised helicoid-type metrics and gener…

The study examines minimal surfaces in Riemannian products of surfaces.

We examine a condition on a simply connected 2-complex X ensuring that groups acting properly on X are coherent. This extends earlier work on 2-complexes with negative sectional curvature which covers the case that G acts freely. Our extension of these results involves a generalization of the notion of sectional curvat…

We describe the gauge-theoretic approach to transformations in integrable geometry through discussion of two classical examples: surfaces of constant negative Gauss curvature and isothermic surfaces. These are purely expository notes written to accompany some lectures I gave in Fukuoka in May 2015.

Let $M$ be a compact connected surface with boundary. We prove that the signal condition given by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is necessary and sufficient for a given smooth function $f$ on $\partial M$ (resp. on $M$) to be geodesic curvature of the boundary (resp. the Gauss curvature) of some flat metric on $M$ (resp. met…

We prove gradient estimates for hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1},$ expanding by negative powers of a certain class of homogeneous curvature functions. We obtain optimal gradient estimates for hypersurfaces evolving by certain powers $p>1$ of $F^{-1}$ and smooth convergence of the properly rescale…

We use the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and the triangle comparison theorems of Rauch and Toponogov to show that on compact Riemann surfaces of negative curvature period integrals of eigenfunctions $e_λ$ over geodesics go to zero at the rate of $O((\logλ)^{-1/2})$ if $λ$ are their frequencies. As discussed in \cite{CSPer}, no …

On the basis of loop group decompositions (Birkhoff decompositions), we give a discrete version of the nonlinear d'Alembert formula, a method of separation of variables of difference equations, for discrete constant negative Gauss curvature (pseudospherical) surfaces in Euclidean three space. We also compute two exampl…

Revisits Weyl's problem on isometric immersions of spheres into 3D manifolds.

Consider a quantum particle trapped between a curved layer of constant width built over a complete, non-compact, $\mathcal C^2$ smooth surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We assume that the surface is asymptotically flat in the sense that the second fundamental form vanishes at infinity, and that the surface is not tot…

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in infinite two-dimensional strips defined as uniform tubular neighbourhoods of curves on ruled surfaces. We show that the negative Gauss curvature of the ambient surface gives rise to a Hardy inequality and use this to prove certain stability of spectrum in the case of asymptoticall…

This paper sets a lower bound for the Gauss map area of surfaces in S^3.

Study rotational surfaces with prescribed Gauss curvature in 3D space.

Paper solves Orlicz-Aleksandrov problem using Gauss curvature flow.

Upper bounds on Bartnik mass for non-negatively curved spheres.

Study finds conditions for stationary spacelike surfaces in a generalized Robertson-Walker spacetime.

We show that on compact Riemann surfaces of negative curvature, the generalized periods, i.e. the $ν$-th order Fourier coefficient of eigenfunctions $e_λ$ over a period geodesic $γ$ goes to 0 at the rate of $O((\logλ)^{-1/2})$, if $0<ν<c_0λ$, given any $0<c_0<1$. No such result is possible for the sphere $S^2$ or the f…

Classification of constant curvature surfaces in Berger spheres.

Integral geometry explores curvature conjectures on manifolds.

The $(2k)$-th Gauss-Bonnet curvature is a generalization to higher dimensions of the $(2k)$-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet integrand, it coincides with the usual scalar curvature for $k=1$. The Gauss-Bonnet curvatures are used in theoretical physics to describe gravity in higher dimensional space times where they are known a…

We define a formal Riemannian metric on a given conformal class of metrics on a closed Riemann surface. We show interesting formal properties for this metric, in particular the curvature is nonpositive and the Liouville energy is geodesically convex. The geodesic equation for this metric corresponds to a degenerate ell…

Study on Gauss images of specific minimal surfaces with finite curvature.

Minimal hypersurfaces in S^5 with specific curvature properties are totally geodesic.

Study examines noncompact cases of Gauss Curvature Flow on revolution surfaces.