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The paper studies prescribed angle surfaces in Riemannian manifolds with torse-forming vector fields.

Characterizes representations for complex projective structures with specific branch data.

We study the prescribed mean curvature equation with a prescribed boundary contact angle condition in $M\times\R$ where $M^n$ is a Riemannian submanifold in $\R^{n+1}$. The main purpose is to establish a priori gradient estimates for solutions, from which the long time existence of the solution are derived.

Proves existence and uniqueness of metrics with negative curvature and singularities on compact surfaces.

The paper constructs surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in a specific space.

Study circle patterns and polyhedral surfaces in hyperbolic ends, proving manifold properties.

Classification of surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in Heisenberg space and SL2(R).

We use a variational principle to prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for planar weighted Delaunay triangulations (with non-intersecting site-circles) with prescribed combinatorial type and circle intersection angles. Such weighted Delaunay triangulations may be interpreted as images of hyperbolic polyhedra with …

New approach to prescribing Gaussian curvature on spheres with conical singularities.

Study on surfaces with conical singularities and geodesic boundaries, deriving existence results.

We establish the short-time existence of the Ricci flow on surfaces with a finite number of conic points, all with cone angle between 0 and $2π$, where the cone angles remain fixed or change in some smooth prescribed way. For the angle-preserving flow we prove long-time existence and convergence. When the Troyanov angl…

Survey on metrics with conic singularities on Riemann surfaces.

The paper defines and proves the existence of curves in Riemannian manifolds with prescribed angles to torse-forming vector fields.

A Euclidean (or hyperbolic) circle packing on a closed triangulated surface with prescribed inversive distance is locally determined by its cone angles. We prove this by applying a variational principle.

In this paper we study nonparametric mean curvature type flows in $M\times\mathbb{R}$ which are represented as graphs $(x,u(x,t))$ over a domain in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with prescribed contact angle. The speed of $u$ is the mean curvature speed minus an admissible function $ψ(x,u,Du)$. Long time existence and unif…

The purpose of this paper is to study immersed surfaces in the product spaces $\mathbb{M}^2(κ)\times\mathbb{R}$, whose mean curvature is given as a $C^1$ function depending on their angle function. This class of surfaces extends widely, among others, the well-known theory of surfaces with constant mean curvature. In th…

Mean curvature flow converges to a translating soliton with prescribed contact angle.

Study of curves and surfaces in Riemannian spaces making a constant angle with a parallel transported direction.

In this paper we provide a large new family of embedded capillary surfaces inside polyhedral regions in the Euclidean space. The angle of contact of the examples we furnish is prescribed to be any value in $(\fracπ{2}, π]$ and it is allowed to vary from one boundary component to the other.

Smooth analog of Gromov's dihedral rigidity for 3D weakly convex domains.

Infinite circle packings on surfaces with conical singularities are possible.

Reproves results on spherical metrics using parabolic bundles.

Paper proves existence and uniqueness of circle patterns on surfaces with assigned geodesic curvatures.

Paper proves minimizing movements match smooth droplet flow in 3D.

In 1996, Kirk Lancaster and David Siegel investigated the existence and behavior of radial limits at a corner of the boundary of the domain of solutions of capillary and other prescribed mean curvature problems with contact angle boundary data. In Theorem 3, they provide an example of a capillary surface in a unit disk…

We prove existence and uniqueness results for patterns of circles with prescribed intersection angles in constant curvature surfaces. Our method is based on two new functionals--one for the Euclidean and one for the hyperbolic case. We show how Colin de Verdi`ere's, Br"agger's and Rivin's functionals can be derived fro…

In this paper, for the Lorentz manifold $M^{2}\times\mathbb{R}$, with $M^{2}$ a $2$-dimensional complete surface with nonnegative Gaussian curvature, we investigate its space-like graphs over compact strictly convex domains in $M^{2}$, which are evolving by the non-parametric mean curvature flow with prescribed contact…

The paper classifies helicoidal surfaces with specific curvature functions.

Local classification of surfaces and hypersurfaces with radial mean curvature.

Shows smoothness of varifolds with specific boundary angles.

The aim of this paper is to extend classic results of the theory of CMC surfaces in the product spaces to the class of immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{M}^2(κ)\times\mathbb{R}$ whose mean curvature is given as a $C^1$ function depending on their angle function. We cover topics such as the existence of a priori curvature e…

In this article we study the shape of a compact surface of constant mean curvature of Euclidean space whose boundary is contained in a round sphere. We consider the case that the boundary is prescribed or that the surface meets the sphere with a constant angle. We study under what geometric conditions the surface must …

Proves existence of circle patterns on surfaces with cusps.

Study proves existence of weak mean curvature flow with contact angle.

We use PDE methods as developed for the Liouville equation to study the existence of conformal metrics with prescribed singularities on surfaces with boundary, the boundary condition being constant geodesic curvature. Our first result shows that a disk with two corners admits a conformal metric with constant Gauss curv…

In his paper "Shapes of Polyhedra and Triangulations of the Sphere", Thurston found that the set of shapes of convex polyhedra with prescribed cone-deficits has a complex hyperbolic structure. Inspired by his work, this paper studies the set of shapes of centrally symmetric octahedra with prescribed cone-deficits. We s…

In this work, we study graphs in $\M^n\times\Real$ that are evolving by the mean curvature flow over a bounded domain on $\M^n$, with prescribed contact angle in the boundary. We prove that solutions converge to translating surfaces in $\M^n\times\Real$. Also, for a Riemannian manifold $\M^2$ with negative Gaussian cur…

Given a triangulation of a closed surface, we consider a cross ratio system that assigns a complex number to every edge satisfying certain polynomial equations per vertex. Every cross ratio system induces a complex projective structure together with a circle pattern on the closed surface. In particular, there is an ass…

We show that for given four points on the sphere and prescribed angles at these points, which are not multiples of $2π$, the number of metrics of curvature 1 having conic singularities with these angles at these points is finite.

We introduce the class of perturbed right-angled Artin groups. These are constructed by gluing Bieri double groups into standard right-angled Artin groups. As a first application of this construction we obtain families of CAT(0) groups containing finitely presented subgroups which are not of type $\mathrm{FP}_3$, and h…

The paper proves the existence of constant mean curvature disks with capillary boundary conditions.

We introduce a compactification of the space of simple positive divisors on a Riemann surface, as well as a compactification of the universal family of punctured surfaces above this space. These are real manifolds with corners. We then study the space of constant curvature metrics on this Riemann surface with prescribe…

The liquid shape between two vertical parallel plates in a gravity field due to capillary forces is studied. When the physical system achieves its mechanical equilibrium, the capillary surface has mean curvature proportional to its height above a horizontal reference plane and it meets the vertical walls in a prescribe…

We first define a complex angle between two oriented spacelike planes in 4-dimensional Minkowski space, and then study the constant angle surfaces in that space, i.e. the oriented spacelike surfaces whose tangent planes form a constant complex angle with respect to a fixed spacelike plane. This notion is the natural Lo…

We consider the relationship between hyperbolic cone-manifold structures on surfaces, and algebraic representations of the fundamental group into a group of isometries. A hyperbolic cone-manifold structure on a surface, with all interior cone angles being integer multiples of $2π$, determines a holonomy representation …

The paper proves a theorem for discretizing Gaussian curvature on surfaces.

We consider quasifuchsian manifolds with "particles", i.e., cone singularities of fixed angle less than $π$ going from one connected component of the boundary at infinity to the other. Each connected component of the boundary at infinity is then endowed with a conformal structure marked by the endpoints of the particle…

In this article we give a criterion for the existence of a metric of curvature $1$ on a $2$-sphere with $n$ conical singularities of prescribed angles $2π\vartheta_1,\dots,2π\vartheta_n$ and non-coaxial holonomy. Such a necessary and sufficient condition is expressed in terms of linear inequalities in $\vartheta_1,\dot…