Gauss curvature estimates for minimal graphs

Maria Nowak; Magdalena Wołoszkiewicz

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Global pinching theorems for minimal submanifolds in spheres

Kairen Cai (2003)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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Let M be a compact submanifold with parallel mean curvature vector embedded in the unit sphere $S^{n + p} (1)$ . By using the Sobolev inequalities of P. Li to get $L_{p}$ estimates for the norms of certain tensors related to the second fundamental form of M, we prove some rigidity theorems. Denote by H and ${| | σ | |}_{p}$ the mean curvature and the $L_{p}$ norm of the square length of the second fundamental form of M. We show that there is a constant C such that if ${| | σ | |}_{n / 2} < C$ , then M is a minimal submanifold in the sphere $S^{n + p - 1} (1 + H ²)$ with sectional...

A new characterization of the sphere in $R^{3}$

Thomas Hasanis (1980)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

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Let M be a closed connected surface in $R^{3}$ with positive Gaussian curvature K and let $K_{I} I$ be the curvature of its second fundamental form. It is shown that M is a sphere if $K_{I} I = c \sqrt H K^{r}$ , for some constants c and r, where H is the mean curvature of M.

Mean curvature properties for $p$ -Laplace phase transitions

Berardino Sciunzi, Enrico Valdinoci (2005)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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This paper deals with phase transitions corresponding to an energy which is the sum of a kinetic part of $p$ -Laplacian type and a double well potential $h_{0}$ with suitable growth conditions. We prove that level sets of solutions of $Δ_{p} u = h_{0}^{'} (u)$ possessing a certain decay property satisfy a mean curvature equation in a suitable weak viscosity sense. From this, we show that, if the above level sets approach uniformly a hypersurface, the latter has zero mean curvature.

Two-dimensional curvature functionals with superquadratic growth

Ernst Kuwert, Tobias Lamm, Yuxiang Li (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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For two-dimensional, immersed closed surfaces $f : Σ \to ℝ^{n}$ , we study the curvature functionals $ℰ^{p} (f)$ and $𝒲^{p} (f)$ with integrands ${(1 + | A |}^{2})^{p / 2}$ and ${(1 + | H |}^{2})^{p / 2}$ , respectively. Here $A$ is the second fundamental form, $H$ is the mean curvature and we assume $p > 2$ . Our main result asserts that $W^{2, p}$ critical points are smooth in both cases. We also prove a compactness theorem for $𝒲^{p}$ -bounded sequences. In the case of $ℰ^{p}$ this is just Langer’s theorem [16], while for $𝒲^{p}$ we have to impose a bound for the Willmore energy strictly below $8 π$ as an additional...

Hypersurfaces with free boundary and large constant mean curvature: concentration along submanifolds

Mouhamed Moustapha Fall, Fethi Mahmoudi (2008)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

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Given a domain $Ω$ of $ℝ^{m + 1}$ and a $k$ -dimensional non-degenerate minimal submanifold $K$ of $\partial Ω$ with $1 \leq k \leq m - 1$ , we prove the existence of a family of embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in $Ω$ which as their mean curvature tends to infinity concentrate along $K$ and intersecting $\partial Ω$ perpendicularly along their boundaries.

Travelling graphs for the forced mean curvature motion in an arbitrary space dimension

Régis Monneau, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, Violaine Roussier-Michon (2013)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We construct travelling wave graphs of the form $z = - c t + φ (x)$ , $φ : x \in ℝ^{N - 1} \mapsto φ (x) \in ℝ$ , $N \geq 2$ , solutions to the $N$ -dimensional forced mean curvature motion $V_{n} = - c_{0} + κ$ ( $c \geq c_{0}$ ) with prescribed asymptotics. For any $1$ -homogeneous function $φ_{\infty}$ , viscosity solution to the eikonal equation $| D φ_{\infty} | = \sqrt{{(c / c_{0})}^{2} - 1}$ , we exhibit a smooth concave solution to the forced mean curvature motion whose asymptotics is driven by $φ_{\infty}$ . We also describe $φ_{\infty}$ in terms of a probability measure on $§^{N - 2}$ .

Ramification of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in $ℝ^{m}$ on annular ends

Gerd Dethloff, Pham Hoang Ha, Pham Duc Thoan (2016)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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We study the ramification of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in $ℝ^{m}$ on annular ends. This is a continuation of previous work of Dethloff-Ha (2014), which we extend here to targets of higher dimension.

A characterization of n-dimensional hypersurfaces in $R^{n + 1}$ with commuting curvature operators

Yulian T. Tsankov (2005)

Banach Center Publications

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Let Mⁿ be a hypersurface in $R^{n + 1}$ . We prove that two classical Jacobi curvature operators $J_{x}$ and $J_{y}$ commute on Mⁿ, n > 2, for all orthonormal pairs (x,y) and for all points p ∈ M if and only if Mⁿ is a space of constant sectional curvature. Also we consider all hypersurfaces with n ≥ 4 satisfying the commutation relation $(K_{x, y} \circ K_{z, u}) (u) = (K_{z, u} \circ K_{x, y}) (u)$ , where $K_{x, y} (u) = R (x, y, u)$ , for all orthonormal tangent vectors x,y,z,w and for all points p ∈ M.

A geometric problem and the Hopf Lemma. I

Yan Yan Li, Louis Nirenberg (2006)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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A classical result of A. D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n$ -dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $ℝ^{n + 1}$ , and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of symmetry of $M$ in a hyperplane $X_{n + 1} = const$ in case $M$ satisfies: for any two points $(X^{'}, X_{n + 1})$ , $(X^{'}, {\hat{X}}_{n + 1})$ on $M$ , with $X_{n + 1} > {\hat{X}}_{n + 1}$ , the mean curvature at the first is not greater than that at the second. Symmetry need not always hold, but in this paper, we establish it under some additional condition for $n = 1$ ....

Singer-Thorpe bases for special Einstein curvature tensors in dimension 4

Zdeněk Dušek (2015)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Let $(M, g)$ be a 4-dimensional Einstein Riemannian manifold. At each point $p$ of $M$ , the tangent space admits a so-called Singer-Thorpe basis (ST basis) with respect to the curvature tensor $R$ at $p$ . In this basis, up to standard symmetries and antisymmetries, just $5$ components of the curvature tensor $R$ are nonzero. For the space of constant curvature, the group $O (4)$ acts as a transformation group between ST bases at $T_{p} M$ and for the so-called 2-stein curvature tensors, the group $Sp (1) \subset SO (4)$ acts as a transformation...

On some properties of three-dimensional minimal sets in $ℝ^{4}$

Tien Duc Luu (2013)

Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

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We prove in this paper the Hölder regularity of Almgren minimal sets of dimension 3 in $ℝ^{4}$ around a $𝕐$ -point and the existence of a point of particular type of a Mumford-Shah minimal set in $ℝ^{4}$ , which is very close to a $𝕋$ . This will give a local description of minimal sets of dimension 3 in $ℝ^{4}$ around a singular point and a property of Mumford-Shah minimal sets in $ℝ^{4}$ .

Regularity of stable solutions of $p$ -Laplace equations through geometric Sobolev type inequalities

Daniele Castorina, Manel Sanchón (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We prove a Sobolev and a Morrey type inequality involving the mean curvature and the tangential gradient with respect to the level sets of the function that appears in the inequalities. Then, as an application, we establish a priori estimates for semistable solutions of $- Δ_{p} u = g (u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $Ω \subset ℝ^{n}$ . In particular, we obtain new $L^{r}$ and $W^{1, r}$ bounds for the extremal solution $u^{☆}$ when the domain is strictly convex. More precisely, we prove that $u^{☆} \in L^{\infty} (Ω)$ if $n \leq p + 2$ and $u^{☆} \in L^{\frac{n p}{n - p - 2}} (Ω) \cap W_{0}^{1, p} (Ω)$ if $n > p + 2$ .

The resolution of the bounded $L^{2}$ curvature conjecture in general relativity

Sergiu Klainerman, Igor Rodnianski, Jérémie Szeftel (2014-2015)

Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications

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This paper reports on the recent proof of the bounded $L^{2}$ curvature conjecture. More precisely we show that the time of existence of a classical solution to the Einstein-vacuum equations depends only on the $L^{2}$ -norm of the curvature and a lower bound of the volume radius of the corresponding initial data set.

Pointed $k$ -surfaces

Graham Smith (2006)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

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Let $S$ be a Riemann surface. Let $ℍ^{3}$ be the $3$ -dimensional hyperbolic space and let $\partial_{\infty} ℍ^{3}$ be its ideal boundary. In our context, a Plateau problem is a locally holomorphic mapping $ϕ : S \to \partial_{\infty} ℍ^{3} = \hat{ℂ}$ . If $i : S \to ℍ^{3}$ is a convex immersion, and if $N$ is its exterior normal vector field, we define the Gauss lifting, $\hat{ı}$ , of $i$ by $\hat{ı} = N$ . Let $\vec{n} : U ℍ^{3} \to \partial_{\infty} ℍ^{3}$ be the Gauss-Minkowski mapping. A solution to the Plateau problem $(S, ϕ)$ is a convex immersion $i$ of constant Gaussian curvature equal to $k \in (0, 1)$ such that the Gauss lifting $(S, \hat{ı})$ is complete and $\vec{n} \circ \hat{ı} = ϕ$ . In this...

A Note on Surfaces in $\mathbb{H}^{2}\times\mathbb{R}$

Stefano Montaldo, Irene I. Onnis (2007)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

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In this article we consider surfaces in the product space $\mathbb{H}^{2}\times\mathbb{R}$ of the hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{H}^{2}$ with the real line. The main results are: a description of some geometric properties of minimal graphs; new examples of complete minimal graphs; the local classification of totally umbilical surfaces.

On Kakeya–Nikodym averages, $L^{p}$ -norms and lower bounds for nodal sets of eigenfunctions in higher dimensions

Matthew D. Blair, Christopher D. Sogge (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We extend a result of the second author [27, Theorem 1.1] to dimensions $d \geq 3$ which relates the size of $L^{p}$ -norms of eigenfunctions for $2 < p < 2 (d + 1) / d - 1$ to the amount of $L^{2}$ -mass in shrinking tubes about unit-length geodesics. The proof uses bilinear oscillatory integral estimates of Lee [22] and a variable coefficient variant of an " $ϵ$ removal lemma" of Tao and Vargas [35]. We also use Hörmander’s [20] $L^{2}$ oscillatory integral theorem and the Cartan–Hadamard theorem to show that, under the assumption of nonpositive...

$Γ$ -convergence of discrete approximations to interfaces with prescribed mean curvature

Giovanni Bellettini, Maurizio Paolini, Claudio Verdi (1990)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

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The numerical approximation of the minimum problem: ${min}_{A \subseteq Ω} \tilde{F} (A)$ , is considered, where $\tilde{F} (A) = P_{Ω} (A) + \cos (θ) H^{n - 1} (\partial A \cap \partial Ω) - \int_{A} κ$ . The solution to this problem is a set $A \subseteq Ω \subset R^{n}$ with prescribed mean curvature $κ$ and contact angle $θ$ at the intersection of $\partial A$ with $\partial Ω$ . The functional $\tilde{F}$ is first relaxed with a sequence of nonconvex functionals defined in $H^{1} (Ω)$ which, in turn, are discretized by finite elements. The $Γ$ -convergence of the discrete functionals to $\tilde{F}$ as well as the compactness of any sequence of discrete absolute minimizers are proven. ...

Zero-set property of o-minimal indefinitely Peano differentiable functions

Andreas Fischer (2008)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

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Given an o-minimal expansion ℳ of a real closed field R which is not polynomially bounded. Let $^{\infty}$ denote the definable indefinitely Peano differentiable functions. If we further assume that ℳ admits $^{\infty}$ cell decomposition, each definable closed subset A of Rⁿ is the zero-set of a $^{\infty}$ function f:Rⁿ → R. This implies $^{\infty}$ approximation of definable continuous functions and gluing of $^{\infty}$ functions defined on closed definable sets.

Embedding products of graphs into Euclidean spaces

Mikhail Skopenkov (2003)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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For any collection of graphs $G ₁, . . ., G_{N}$ we find the minimal dimension d such that the product $G ₁ \times . . . \times G_{N}$ is embeddable into $ℝ^{d}$ (see Theorem 1 below). In particular, we prove that (K₅)ⁿ and $(K_{3, 3}) ⁿ$ are not embeddable into $ℝ^{2 n}$ , where K₅ and $K_{3, 3}$ are the Kuratowski graphs. This is a solution of a problem of Menger from 1929. The idea of the proof is a reduction to a problem from so-called Ramsey link theory: we show that any embedding $L k O \to S^{2 n - 1}$ , where O is a vertex of (K₅)ⁿ, has a pair of linked (n-1)-spheres.