• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.457-469
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• 2015

From the point of view of pseudohermitian geometry, we classify Legendre surfaces of Sasakian space forms with non-minimal ${\hat{C}}$-parallel mean curvature vector field for the Tanaka-Webster connection.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.151-167
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• 2016

In Minkowskian 3-spacetime $L^3$ we find timelike or spacelike surface of revolution for the given Gauss curvature K = -1, 0, 1 and mean curvature H = 0. In fact, we set up the surface of revolution with the time axis for z-axis to be able to draw those surfaces on standard pictures in Minkowskian 3-spacetime $L^3$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.541-549
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• 2010

In this paper we derive an integral formula on an (n + 1)-dimensional, compact, minimal contact CR-submanifold M of (n - 1) contact CR-dimension immersed in a unit (2m+1)-sphere $S^{2m+1}$. Using this integral formula, we give a sufficient condition concerning with the scalar curvature of M in order that such a submanifold M is to be a generalized Clifford torus.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.641-648
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• 1994

Let M be a minimally immersed closed hypersurface in $S^{n+1}$, II the second fundamental form and $S = \Vert II \Vert^2$. It is well known that if $0 \leq S \leq n$, then $S \equiv 0$ or $S \equiv n$ and totally geodesic hypersheres and Clifford tori are the only possible minimal hypersurfaces with $S \equiv 0$ or $S \equiv n$ ([6], [2]). From these results, Chern suggested some questions on the study of compact minimal hypersurfaces on the sphere with S =constant: what are the next possible values of S to n, and does in the ambient sphere\ulcorner By the way, S is defined extrinsically but, in fact, it is an intrinsic invariant for the minimal hypersurface, i.e., S = n(n-1) - R, where R is the scalar, curvature of M. Some partial answers have been obtained for dim M = 3: Assuming $M^3 \subset S^4$ is closed and minimal with S =constant, de Almeida and Brito [1] proved that if $R \geq 0$ (or equivalently $S \leq 6$), then S = 0, 3 or 6, Peng and Terng ([5]) proved that if M has 3 distint principal curvatures, then S = 6, and in [3] Chang showed that if there exists a point which has two distinct principal curvatures, then S = 3. Hence the problem for dim M = 3 is completely done. For higher dimensional cases, not much has been known and these problems seem to be very hard without imposing some more conditions on M.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2021

In the recent papers, S'anchez-Reyes [Appl. Math. Model. 40 (2016), 1676-1682] described the method for finding a minimal surface through a geodesic, and Li et al. [Appl. Math. Model. 37 (2013), 6415-6424] studied the approximation of minimal surfaces with a geodesic from Dirichlet function. In the present article, we consider an isoparametric surface generated by Frenet frame of a curve introduced by Wang et al. [Comput. Aided Des. 36 (2004), 447-459], and give the necessary and sufficient condition to satisfy both geodesic of the curve and minimality of the surface. From this, we construct minimal surfaces in terms of constant curvature and torsion of the curve. As a result, we present a new approach for constructions of the minimal surfaces from a prescribed closed geodesic and unclosed geodesic, and show some new examples of minimal surfaces with a circle and a helix as a geodesic. Our approach can be used in design of minimal surfaces from geodesics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.395-406
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• 2007

Involving the Ricci curvature and the squared mean curvature, we obtain a basic inequality for an integral submanifold of an S-space form. By polarization, we get a basic inequality for Ricci tensor also. Equality cases are also discussed. By giving a very simple proof we show that if an integral submanifold of maximum dimension of an S-space form satisfies the equality case, then it must be minimal. These results are applied to get corresponding results for C-totally real submanifolds of a Sasakian space form and for totally real submanifolds of a complex space form.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.55-60
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• 1977

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.98-109
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• 2022

In the present paper, we prove the growth and distortion theorems for the spirallike functions class 𝓢_k(λ) related to boundary radius rotation, and by using the distortion result, we get an estimate for the Gaussian curvature of a minimal surface lifted by a harmonic function whose analytic part belongs to the class 𝓢_k(λ). Moreover, we determine and draw the minimal surface corresponding to the harmonic Koebe function.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.109-122
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• 2021

In this paper, we consider the problem of finding the hypersurface Mn in the Euclidean (n + 1)-space ℝn+1 that satisfies an equation of mean curvature type, called singular minimal hypersurface equation. Such an equation physically characterizes the surfaces in the upper half-space ℝ+3 (u) with lowest gravity center, for a fixed unit vector u ∈ ℝ3. We first state that a singular minimal cylinder Mn in ℝn+1 is either a hyperplane or a α-catenary cylinder. It is also shown that this result remains true when Mn is a translation hypersurface and u is a horizantal vector. As a further application, we prove that a singular minimal translation graph in ℝ3 of the form z = f(x) + g(y + cx), c ∈ ℝ - {0}, with respect to a certain horizantal vector u is either a plane or a α-catenary cylinder.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.173-187
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• 2021

In this paper, we deal with the notion of a v-semi-slant submersion from an almost Hermitian manifold onto a Riemannian manifold. We investigate the integrability of distributions, the geometry of foliations, and a decomposition theorem. Given such a map with totally umbilical fibers, we have a condition for the fibers of the map to be minimal. We also obtain an inequality of a proper v-semi-slant submersion in terms of squared mean curvature, scalar curvature, and a v-semi-slant angle. Moreover, we give some examples of such maps and some open problems.