3 papers
math.DG2026
Mean curvature and closed geodesics in convex hypersurfaces
James Dibble, Joseph Ansel Hoisington
We give a sharp lower bound for the total mean curvature of a convex hypersurface in Euclidean space in terms of the length of a shortest nontrivial closed geodesic, generalizing a…
math.DG2026
Total absolute curvature and rigidity of surfaces in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds
Mohammad Ghomi, Joseph Ansel Hoisington, Matteo Raffaelli +1
We show that closed surfaces with minimal total absolute curvature in Cartan-Hadamard 3-manifolds bound flat convex bodies. This generalizes Chern-Lashof's theorem for surfaces in…
math.DG2019
Steiner's formula and a variational proof of the isoperimetric inequality
Joseph Ansel Hoisington
We give a new proof of the isoperimetric inequality in the plane, based on Steiner's formula for the area of a convex neighborhood. This proof establishes the isoperimetric inequal…