• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.1459-1468
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• 2018

We show that an umbilic-free minimal surface in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ belongs to the associate family of the catenoid if and only if the geodesic curvatures of its lines of curvature have a constant ratio. As a corollary, the helicoid is shown to be the unique umbilic-free minimal surface whose lines of curvature have the same geodesic curvature. A similar characterization of the deformation family of minimal surfaces with planar lines of curvature is also given.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.1101-1114
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• 1996

In Riemannian geometry, it is one of the important things to study the topological or geometric invariants of manifolds since they characterize the topology of manifolds.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.285-289
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• 1999

In this paper, we estimate the total curvature of non-parametric minimal surfaces by using the properties of univalent harmonic mappings defined on ${\Delta}=\{z:{\mid}z:{\mid}>1\}$.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.379-385
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• 2021

We consider the local uniqueness of a catenoid under the condition for the Gaussian curvature analogous to Bianchi surfaces. More precisely, if a nonplanar minimal surface in ℝ³ has the Gaussian curvature $K={\frac{1}{(U(u)+V(v))^2}}$ for any functions U(u) and V (v) with respect to a line of curvature coordinate system (u, v), then it is part of a catenoid. To do this, we use the relation between a conformal line of curvature coordinate system and a Chebyshev coordinate system.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.677-683
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• 2008

On a compact n-dimensional manifold M, it has been conjectured that a critical point metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of volume 1, should be Einstein. The purpose of the present paper is to prove that a 3-dimensional manifold (M,g) is isometric to a standard sphere if ker $s^*_g{{\neq}}0$ and there is a lower Ricci curvature bound. We also study the structure of a compact oriented stable minimal surface in M.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.679-684
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• 2015

In this paper we discuss bounds for the total curvature of nonparametric minimal surfaces by using the properties of planar harmonic mappings.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.321-336
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• 1997

Let S be the Ricci curvature of an n-dimensional compact minimal totally real submanifold M of a quaternion projective space $HP^n (c)$ of quaternion sectional curvature c. We proved that if $S \leq \frac{16}{3(n -2)}c$, then either $S \equiv \frac{4}{n - 1}c$ (i.e. M is totally geodesic or $S \equiv \frac{16}{3(n - 2)}c$. All compact minimal totally real submanifolds of $HP^n (c)$ satisfy in $S \equiv \frac{16}{3(n - 2)}c$ are determined.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.335-342
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• 2011

In this paper, we prove that minimal hypersurfaces when n $\geq$ 3 and nonzero constant mean curvature hypersurfaces when n $\geq$ 2 foliated by spheres in parallel horizontal hyperplanes in $\mathbb{H}^n{\times}\mathbb{R}$ must be rotationally symmetric.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.135-142
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• 2013

In the present paper, we discuss the rigidity phenomenon of closed minimal submanifolds in a locally symmetric Riemannian manifold with pinched sectional curvature. We show that if the sectional curvature of the submanifold is no less than an explicitly given constant, then either the submanifold is totally geodesic, or the ambient space is a sphere and the submanifold is isometric to a product of two spheres or the Veronese surface in $S^4$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.175-177
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• 1989

The following is the basic problem about the stability in Riemannian Geometry; given a Riemannian manifold N, find all stable complete minimal submanifolds of N. As answers of this problem, do Carmo-Peng [1] and Fischer-Colbrie and Schoen [3] showed that the stable minimal surfaces in R$^{3}$ are planes and Schoen-Yau [5] and Fischer-Colbrie and Schoen [3] gave a solution for the case where the ambient space is a three dimensional manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature. In this paper we will remove the assumption of finite absolute total curvature in [3, Theorem 3].