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Study preserves planar and graphical properties of curves under elastic flow.

Optimal thresholds ensure curves remain embedded in flows.

Generalizes embeddedness result for extreme curves.

The paper classifies and analyzes the stability of elastic curves with fixed endpoints.

Study of minimal surfaces in 4D with specific ends.

Smooth convergence shown for curve diffusion flows.

We add two new 1-parameter families to the short list of known embedded triply periodic minimal surfaces of genus 4 in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Both surfaces can be tiled by minimal pentagons with two straight segments and three planar symmetry curves as boundary. In one case (which has the appearance of the CLP surface of Schw…

Constructs minimal surfaces by gluing saddle towers with Scherk ends.

Proves Li-Yau inequality for Helfrich functional, ensuring embeddedness in spherical cases.

Topology classifies bipolar surfaces; they are not embedded.

This paper has been withdrawn.

We generalize Meeks and Yau's embeddedness result on the solutions of the Plateau problem to the constant mean curvature disks. We show that any minimizing H-disk in an H_0-convex domain is embedded for any H in [0,H_0). In particular, for the unit ball B in R^3, this implies that for any H in [0,1], any Jordan curve i…

We find a 2-parameter family of deformations in R^4_1 of the classical Chen-Gackstatter surface explicitly, and show the existence of a larger 4-parameter family of deformations. Each of them still has genus one, a unique end, with total Gaussian curvature $-\int K=8π$. On the other hand, a uniqueness theorem is obtain…

We prove that if $φ\colon \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^{1+2}$ is a smooth proper timelike immersion with vanishing mean curvature, then necessarily $φ$ is an embedding, and every compact subset of $φ(\mathbb{R}^2)$ is a smooth graph. It follows that if one evolves any smooth self-intersecting spacelike curve (or any pla…

Let $α$ be a polygonal Jordan curve in $\bfR^3$. We show that if $α$ satisfies certain conditions, then the least-area Douglas-Radó disk in $\bfR^3$ with boundary $α$ is unique and is a smooth graph. As our conditions on $α$ are not included amongst previously known conditions for embeddedness, we are enlarging the set…

We consider mean-convex Alexandrov embedded surfaces in the round unit 3-sphere, and show under which conditions it is possible to continuously deform these preserving mean-convex Alexandrov embeddedness.

This paper proves that classical minimal surfaces of arbitrary topological type with total boundary curvature at most 4πmust be smoothly embedded. Related results are proved for varifolds and for soap film surfaces.

The flow of symmetric spheres converges to a round sphere.

We prove the existence of a family of embedded doubly periodic minimal surfaces of (quotient) genus $g$ with orthogonal ends that generalizes the classical doubly periodic surface of Scherk and the genus-one Scherk surface of Karcher. The proof of the family of immersed surfaces is by induction on genus, while the proo…

Study constant mean curvature tubes in homogeneous spaces.

Let $X$ denote a metric Lie group diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^3$ that admits an algebraic open book decomposition. In this paper we prove that if $Σ$ is an immersed surface in $X$ whose left invariant Gauss map is a diffeomorphism onto $\mathbb{S}^2$, then $Σ$ is an embedded sphere. As a consequence, we deduce that an…

Study on liquid-vapor interfaces in stable equilibrium without assuming prior regularity.

In this paper we refine the construction and related estimates for complete Constant Mean Curvature surfaces in Euclidean three-space developed in Kapouleas (1990) by adopting the more precise and powerful version of the methodology which was developed in Kapouleas (1995). As a consequence we remove the severe restrict…

Characterizes minor-minimal separating projective planar graphs and their generalizations.

We prove the three embeddedness results as follows. $({\rm i})$ Let $Γ_{2m+1}$ be a piecewise geodesic Jordan curve with $2m+1$ vertices in $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $m$ is an integer $\geq2$. Then the total curvature of $Γ_{2m+1}<2mπ$. In particular, the total curvature of $Γ_5<4π$ and thus any minimal surface $Σ\subset \…

We construct an isotopy of a planar compactum that is not the restriction of an isotopy of any planar continuum.

Study examines how changing regions affects planar graphs.

In this paper, we introduce the notions of an iterated planar Lefschetz fibration and an iterated planar open book decomposition and prove the Weinstein conjecture for contact manifolds supporting an open book that has iterated planar pages. For $n\geq 1$, we show that a $(2n+1)$-dimensional contact manifold $M$ suppor…

New inequalities for planar convex domains' Laplacian eigenvalues.

Quasi-transitive graphs quasi-isometric to planar graphs can be upgraded to Cayley graphs.

Study of higher-dimensional contact manifolds and their properties.

Proves planar graphs' configuration spaces have highest topological complexity.

We find an invariant characterization of planar webs of maximum rank. For 4-webs, we prove that a planar 4-web is of maximum rank three if and only if it is linearizable and its curvature vanishes. This result leads to the direct web-theoretical proof of the Poincaré's theorem: a planar 4-web of maximum rank is lineari…

We characterize those planar Peano continua that are homotopy equivalent to 1-dimensional sets. While many planar Peano continua are not homotopically 1-dimensional, we prove that each has fundamental group that embeds in the fundamental group of a 1-dimensional planar Peano continuum. We leave open the following quest…

Planar multilinks prove rational singularities in surface geometry.

Paper introduces a new invariant for planar knotoids.

A graph is apex if it can be made planar by deleting a vertex, that is, $\exists v$ such that $G-v$ is planar. We define the related notions of edge apex, $\exists e$ such that $G-e$ is planar, and contraction apex, $\exists e$ such that $G/e$ is planar, as well as the analogues with a universal quantifier: $\forall v$…

Entire area-minimizing surfaces of density 2 are planar or quadratic

The complement of a non-separating planar graph contains a K_n minor.

We define a certain abstract planar algebra by generators and relations, study various aspects of its structure, and then identify it with Jones' spin planar algebra.

Sharp bounds for spanning tree entropy in planar lattices.

Study on planar graph braid groups' second homology.

Paper defines a jellyfish algorithm for a specific subfactor planar algebra.

Compact Special Weingarten surfaces with planar convex boundaries are disks.

In this paper we study lightlike surfaces of Minkowski 3- space such that they have degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections. We first show that every lightlike surface of Minkowski $3-$ space has degenerate planar normal sections. Then we study lightlike surfaces with non-degenerate planar normal sections a…

Minimal surfaces with planar curvature lines in the Euclidean space have been studied since the late 19th century. On the other hand, the classification of maximal surfaces with planar curvature lines in the Lorentz-Minkowski space has only recently been given. In this paper, we use an alternative method not only to re…

We present definitions and properties of conformal Killing, Killing and planarity forms on a Riemannian manifold and determine Tachibana, Killing and planarity numbers as an analog of the well known Betti numbers. We state some set of conditions to characterize these numbers. Moreover, we formulate the main results on …

In this short article we investigate the topology of the moduli space of two-convex embedded tori $S^{n-1}\times S^1\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. We prove that for $n \geq 3$ this moduli space is path-connected, and that for $n = 2$ the connected components of the moduli space are in bijective correspondence with the knot…