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The study finds the optimal metrics for free boundary minimal surfaces in spherical caps.

problem Optimizing metrics for free boundary minimal surfaces in spherical caps.
method Introducing functionals based on eigenvalues of Steklov-type problems and proving maximizers are induced by immersions.
result Maximizing metrics are induced by free boundary minimal immersions in geodesic balls of a round sphere.

The study proves rigidity and non-rigidity of spherical caps in mean curvature.

problem Understanding mean curvature rigidity and non-rigidity on spherical caps.
method Used a Tangency Principle to prove rigidity and constructed counterexamples for non-rigidity.
result Contrast between rigidity and non-rigidity phenomena on spherical caps.

Study investigates minimal surfaces in spherical caps, extending previous findings.

problem Characterizing minimal surfaces with free boundaries and capillary conditions in spherical caps.
method Extending previous half-space intersection properties to warped products and capillary minimal surfaces in high codimension.
result Established a dual operation relating free boundary and capillary minimal surfaces.

The paper studies a flow for convex capillary hypersurfaces in a ball, proving smooth convergence to a spherical cap.

problem Analyzing the behavior of convex capillary hypersurfaces under mean curvature flow.
method Introduced mean curvature flow for hypersurfaces in the unit Euclidean ball with capillary boundary. Proved smooth convergence to a spherical cap for strictly convex initial hypersurfaces.
result The flow preserves strict convexity and converges smoothly to a spherical cap for all positive time.

Study convex capillary hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature in a spherical cap.

problem Prescribed curvature problem for convex capillary hypersurfaces.
method Reformulated as Hessian quotient equation with Robin boundary condition.
result Existence of strictly convex capillary hypersurface with prescribed curvature.

It is known that planar disks and small spherical caps are the only constant mean curvature graphs whose boundary is a round circle. Usually, the proof invokes the Maximum Principle for elliptic equations. This paper presents a new proof of this result motivated by an article due to Reilly. Our proof utilizes a flux fo…

2009-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper solves inequalities for capillary hypersurfaces in half-spaces.

problem Finding inequalities for convex capillary hypersurfaces in half-spaces.
method Introduced quermassintegrals and constructed a new locally constrained curvature flow to prove convergence to spherical caps.
result Obtained Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for convex capillary hypersurfaces.

The paper derives Pizzetti formulae and inverts the Radon transform on spheres.

problem Inverting the Radon transform on spheres.
method Obtained Pizzetti-type formulae on sphere regions, used delta distributions, and derived inversion formulae.
result Derived Pizzetti formulae and inversion formulae for the Radon transform on spheres.

The paper shows how to use hyperplanes and hyperballs interchangeably using inversive geometry.

problem Tackles the interchangeability of hyperplanes and hyperballs in discriminative boundaries.
method Applies inversive geometry to transform Euclidean data into spherical data and back, providing explicit formulae.
result Shows a duality between hyperspherical caps and hyperballs, providing explicit formulae to map between them.

Study stable capillary hypersurfaces with planar boundaries in half-spaces and domains.

problem Characterize stable capillary hypersurfaces with planar boundaries in bounded domains.
method Analyzes hypersurfaces in half-spaces and domains bounded by hyperplanes, proving conditions for stability and shape.
result Stable hypersurfaces in certain domains are spherical caps or pieces of spheres.

The paper extends Liebmann's Theorem to convex hypersurfaces with boundary.

problem Proving properties of convex hypersurfaces with boundary in Euclidean space.
method Analyzing locally convex, embedded, compact, connected CMC hypersurfaces bounded by a closed strictly convex submanifold.
result Spherical caps are the only such hypersurfaces with non-zero constant mean curvature bounded by a (n1)(n-1)-sphere.

In this paper we analyze the capacitary potential due to a charged body in order to deduce sharp analytic and geometric inequalities, whose equality cases are saturated by domains with spherical symmetry. In particular, for a regular bounded domain ΩRnΩ\subset \mathbb{R}^n, n3n\geq 3, we prove that if the mean curvature…

2017-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves inequalities for convex capillary hypersurfaces in a half-space.

problem Proving inequalities for convex capillary hypersurfaces in a half-space.
method Locally constrained inverse curvature flow with spherical cap convergence.
result Proves a complete family of Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for convex capillary hypersurfaces.

We study the spherical cap packing problem with a probabilistic approach. Such probabilistic considerations result in an asymptotic sharp universal uniform bound on the maximal inner product between any set of unit vectors and a stochastically independent uniformly distributed unit vector. When the set of unit vectors …

2015-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of metrics with prescribed curvature and geodesic curvature on a disc.

problem Existence and behavior of conformal metrics with prescribed curvature and boundary geodesic curvature.
method Variational characterization and gradient flow approach.
result Existence of solutions or blow-up to a spherical cap, leading to existence results via shadow flow.

The abstract constructs a set of bad 3-orbifolds and shows how any bad 3-orbifold can be transformed into a good one.

problem Characterizing and transforming bad 3-orbifolds into good ones.
method Explicit construction of bad 3-orbifolds and a method of cutting-and-capping to transform them.
result Any bad 3-orbifold can be transformed into a good 3-orbifold through a finite number of operations.

We prove that in Euclidean space Rn+1R^{n+1} any compact immersed nonnegatively curved hypersurface MM with free boundary on the sphere SnS^n is an embedded convex topological disk. In particular, when the mthm^{th} mean curvature of MM is constant, for any 1mn1\leq m\leq n, MM is a spherical cap or an equatorial disk.

2017-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the stability of capillary hypersurfaces in a unit Euclidean ball. It is proved that if the mass center of the generalized body enclosed by the immersed capillary hypersurface and the wetted part of the sphere is located at the origin, then the hypersurface is unstable. An immediate result is that all known ex…

2014-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study a mean curvature type flow with capillary boundary in the unit ball. Our flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed by the hypersurface, and monotonically decreases an energy functional EE. We show that it has the longtime existence and subconverges to spherical caps. As an applic…

2020-01-09abs ↗pdf ↗

In [20], Ros and Vergasta proved that an immersed orientable compact stable constant mean curvature surface ΣΣ with free boundary in a closed ball BR3B\subset\mathbb{R}^3 must be a planar equator, a spherical cap or a surface of genus 1 with at most two boundary components. In this article, by using a modified Hersch t…

2016-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Fixed points of mean section operators found in convex bodies.

problem Characterizing fixed points of mean section operators in convex bodies.
method Characterization of rotation equivariant operators using spherical Laplacian mass distribution, and application of Minkowski valuations.
result Euclidean balls are the only fixed points of mean section operators in a C2C^2 neighborhood of the unit ball.

Study of star-shaped hypersurfaces with capillary boundary using constrained mean curvature flow.

problem Understanding the evolution of hypersurfaces with capillary boundaries.
method Locally constrained mean curvature flow for star-shaped hypersurfaces in the half-space.
result Established new Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for convex hypersurfaces with capillary boundary.

The width of a closed convex subset of Euclidean space is the distance between two parallel supporting planes. The Blaschke-Lebesgue problem consists of minimizing the volume in the class of convex sets of fixed constant width and is still open in dimension n > 2. In this paper we describe a necessary condition that th…

2009-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we investigate the rigidity of ancient solutions of the mean curvature flow with arbitrary codimension in space forms. We first prove that under certain sharp asymptotic pointwise curvature pinching condition the ancient solution in a sphere is either a shrinking spherical cap or a totally geodesic sphere…

2019-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that a capillary surface in a solid cone, that is, a surface that has constant mean curvature and the boundary of surface meets the boundary of the cone with a constant angle, is radially graphical if the mean curvature is non-positive with respect to the Gauss map pointing toward the domain bounded by the surf…

2014-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper solves a specific Minkowski problem for capillary hypersurfaces.

problem Finding capillary convex bodies with prescribed dual curvature measures.
method Reduction to a Monge-Ampère type equation with Robin boundary condition.
result Existence and uniqueness of a smooth solution for θ(0,π2)θ\in (0,\fracπ{2}).

It is classically known that generic smooth maps of R^2 into R^3 admit only cross cap singularities. This suggests that the class of cross caps might be an important object in differential geometry. We show that the standard cross cap (u,uv,v^2) has non-trivial isometric deformations with infinite dimensional freedom. …

2012-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The study pinches conditions for constant mean curvature surfaces in convex 3-manifolds.

problem Understanding the topology and geometry of constant mean curvature surfaces with free boundaries in convex 3-manifolds.
method Provided pinching conditions on the traceless second fundamental form to guarantee surface topology.
result The surface is either a disk, annulus, spherical cap, or Delaunay surface under certain conditions.

This paper proves geodesic curvature measures are bounded for curves near cross cap singularities.

problem Boundedness of geodesic curvature measures near cross cap singularities.
method Analyzes intrinsic cross cap singularities and extends Gauss-Bonnet formula.
result Proves boundedness of geodesic curvature measures for curves near cross cap singularities.