A class of surfaces-graphs in a Riemannian 3-space with a prescribed projection of one field of principal directions onto a surface $Π$ is considered. A problem of determination of such surfaces when both principal curvatures are given over a line in $Π$ is formulated and studied. The geometric problem is reduced to the Cauchy problem for quasilinear PDE's which, under certain conditions for data, are hyperbolic and admit a unique solution. It is shown that the parallel curved (PC) surfaces in space forms provide a special class of global solutions to the geometrical problem with weaker regularity assumptions. Such solutions may be found by an iteration function sequence.
Our principal goal is to study the Prescribed Curvature Tensor problem in locally conformally flat manifolds. The solution to this problem is given explicitly for the special cases of the tensor R, including a case where the metric g is complete on Rn. Similar problems are considered for locally conformally flat manifolds. As applications of these results we exhibit explicit examples of metrics g, conformal to g they are solutions for this problem.
Given a smooth compact hypersurface $M$ with boundary $Σ=\partial M$, we prove the existence of a sequence $M_j$ of hypersurfaces with the same boundary as $M$, such that each Steklov eigenvalue $σ_k(M_j)$ tends to zero as $j$ tends to infinity. The hypersurfaces $M_j$ are obtained from $M$ by a local perturbation near a point of its boundary. Their volumes and diameters are arbitrarily close to those of $M$, while the principal curvatures of the boundary remain unchanged.
Let $M$ be a domain enclosed between two principal orbits on a cohomogeneity one manifold $M_1$. Suppose $T$ and $R$ are symmetric invariant (0,2)-tensor fields on $M$ and $\partial M$, respectively. The paper studies the prescribed Ricci curvature equation $\mathrm{Ric}(G)=T$ for a Riemannian metric $G$ on $M$ subject to the boundary condition $G_{\partial M}=R$ (the notation $G_{\partial M}$ here stands for the metric induced by $G$ on $\partial M$). Imposing a standard assumption on $M_1$, we describe a set of requirements on $T$ and $R$ that guarantee global and local solvability.
We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Minkowski problem in any domain of dependence $D$ in $(2+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space, provided $D$ is contained in the future cone over a point. Namely, it is possible to find a smooth convex Cauchy surface with prescribed curvature function on the image of the Gauss map. This is related to solutions of the Monge-Ampère equation $\det D^2 u(z)=(1/ψ(z))(1-|z|^2)^{-2}$ on the unit disc, with the boundary condition $u|_{\partial\mathbb{D}}=φ$, for $ψ$ a smooth positive function and $φ$ a bounded lower semicontinuous function. We then prove…
We use meromorphic quadratic differentials with higher order poles to parametrize the Teichmüller space of crowned hyperbolic surfaces. Such a surface is obtained on uniformizing a compact Riemann surface with marked points on its boundary components, and has non-compact ends with boundary cusps. This extends Wolf's parametrization of the Teichmüller space of a closed surface using holomorphic quadratic differentials. Our proof involves showing the existence of a harmonic map from a punctured Riemann surface to a crowned hyperbolic surface, with prescribed principal parts of its Hopf different…
In this paper, we consider a large class of expanding flows of closed, smooth, star-shaped hypersurface in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed $ψu^αρ^δf^{-β}$, where $ψ$ is a smooth positive function on unit sphere, $u$ is the support function of the hypersurface, $ρ$ is the radial function, $f$ is a smooth, symmetric, homogenous of degree one, positive function of the principal curvatures of the hypersurface on a convex cone. When $ψ=1$, we prove that the flow exists for all time and converges to infinity if $α+δ+β\le1, β>0$ and $α\le0$, while in case $α+δ+β>1,α,δ\le0$, the flow blo…
