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48 results for spherical mean curvature

The paper examines properties of spherical Finsler metrics, proving their semi-C-reducibility and conditions for vanishing mean stretch curvature.

problem Analyzing curvature properties of spherical Finsler metrics.
method Proving semi-C-reducibility and finding conditions for vanishing mean stretch curvature.
result Conditions for a general spherically symmetric Finsler metric to have vanishing mean stretch curvature.

Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere via spherical curves.

problem Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.
method Continuous function of distance to axis, spherical angular momentum of spherical curves.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-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.

The study proves a rigidity theorem for compact manifolds with boundary.

problem Rigidity of compact manifolds with boundary in low dimensions.
method Dimension reduction argument for mean curvature, extending Schoen-Yau's for scalar curvature.
result Sharp spherical radius rigidity and best NNSC fill-in in terms of mean curvature.

Smooth flows with surgery approximate weak mean curvature flows with spherical and neck-pinch singularities.

problem Approximating weak mean curvature flows with singularities using smooth flows.
method Combining Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits and Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits-White work on canonical neighbourhoods and barriers to flows with surgery.
result Smooth flows with surgery can approximate weak mean curvature flows with spherical and neck-pinch singularities.

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.

Classifies 3-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature.

problem Classifying 3-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature.
method Analyzes properties of 3-manifolds with mean convex boundaries and uniformly positive scalar curvature.
result 3-manifolds with uniformly positive scalar curvature are homeomorphic to sums of spherical 3-manifolds and S1imesS2\mathbb{S}^1 imes \mathbb{S}^2.

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 ↗

The study characterizes compact submanifolds with pinched Ricci curvature in Euclidean and spherical space forms.

problem Characterizing compact submanifolds with specific Ricci curvature bounds.
method Proving rigidity results for submanifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below by a function of mean curvature.
result Submanifolds are either isometric to the Einstein Clifford torus or have vanishing homology groups up to a certain degree.

The paper examines the stability of Minkowski inequality for nearly spherical domains.

problem Stability of Minkowski inequality for nearly spherical domains.
method Analyzes stability inequalities for C1C^1 perturbations of a ball and axially symmetric perturbations.
result Established stability inequalities for curvature integrals of nearly spherical domains.

The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation lacks a general existence theory. Our main contribution is proving that there exist …

2015-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

It is known that the so-called rotation minimizing (RM) frames allow for a simple and elegant characterization of geodesic spherical curves in Euclidean, hyperbolic, and spherical spaces through a certain linear equation involving the coefficients that dictate the RM frame motion (da Silva, da Silva in Mediterr J Math …

2018-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

The paper proves smoothness of mean curvature flow for generic initial data in 3D and 4D.

problem Smoothness of mean curvature flow for generic initial data.
method Long-time existence and uniqueness result for ancient mean curvature flows.
result Smooth mean curvature flow until disappearance in a round point for low-entropy hypersurfaces in 4D.

Fold maps associated to geodesic random walks on curved spaces.

problem Understanding the behavior of geodesic random walks on curved surfaces.
method Analyzing mappings from the unit tangent sphere to a manifold with non-positive curvature.
result For odd powers of the unit tangent sphere, these mappings are fold maps.

Compact proof for Brown-York mass positivity and rigidity in flat and spherical spaces.

problem Positivity of Brown-York mass and rigidity of manifolds with mean-convex boundaries.
method Spinorial proof and optimal lower bound for eigenvalues.
result Optimal lower bound for first non-null eigenvalue of Dirac operator.

In the present study we consider the generalized rotational surfaces in Euclidean spaces. Firstly, we consider generalized spherical curves in Euclidean (n+1)(n+1)-space En+1\mathbb{E}^{n+1}. Further, we introduce some kind of generalized spherical surfaces in Euclidean spaces E3\mathbb{E}^{3} and % \mathbb{E}^{4} respect…

2016-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

For hypersurfaces of dimension greater than one, Huisken showed that compact self-shrinkers of the mean curvature flow with positive scalar mean curvature are spheres. We will prove the following extension: A compact self-similar solution in arbitrary codimension and of dimension greater than one is spherical, i.e. con…

2005-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Ancient convex solutions to flow equations are limited to simple shapes.

problem Characterizing ancient convex solutions to flow equations.
method Analyzing mean curvature flow and curvature functions of convex hypersurfaces.
result Ancient convex solutions to flow equations are limited to spherical, cylindrical, or planar shapes.

We consider a compact, star-shaped, mean convex hypersurface Σ2R3Σ^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3. We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point in a spherical manner, which is very typical for convex surfaces as well (see \cite{An1}). We also prove that in the case we have a surface of revolution which …

2008-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Low-entropy surfaces can be flowed into spheres and cylinders.

problem Proving mean curvature flow for low-entropy hypersurfaces.
method Low-entropy density drop argument and recent work on hypersurfaces.
result Closed hypersurfaces with entropy ≤ 2 can be flowed into spherical and cylindrical shapes.

This paper connects Laguerre minimal surfaces to Weierstrass representations.

problem Understanding the relationship between Laguerre minimal surfaces and Weierstrass representations.
method Defining spherical mean curvature and providing Weierstrass-type representations for two classes of surfaces.
result Laguerre minimal surfaces are related to H2H_2-surfaces, providing a new Weierstrass-type representation.

The paper examines ancient solutions of mean curvature flow in space forms with curvature pinching conditions.

problem Investigating rigidity of ancient solutions of mean curvature flow in space forms.
method Sharp asymptotic pointwise curvature pinching conditions and asymptotic integral curvature pinching conditions.
result Ancient solutions in a sphere are either a shrinking spherical cap or a totally geodesic sphere, and in a hyperbolic space, they are a family of shrinking spheres.

We establish a sharp extrinsic lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of an untrapped surface in initial data sets without apparent horizon in terms of the norm of its mean curvature vector. The equality case leads to rigidity results for the constraint equations with spherical boundary as well as u…

2011-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗