Willmore tori with umbilic lines and minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space (Q1320630): Difference between revisions

Introducing a spectral parameter the authors are able to use integrable system theory to construct minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space -- the upper Poincaré half space -- via Bakher-Akhiezer functions, which meet the infinity plane orthogonally and extend (analytically) through this plane, such that the piece of the surface lying in the lower half plane is also minimal with respect to the Poincaré metric. Giving the space the usual Euclidean metric this extended surface will be a Willmore surface with a line of umbilics, given as the intersection of the surface with the common infinity plane of the two Poincaré half spaces. The included pictures show noncompact Willmore surfaces of this type. As main result the authors state the existence of Willmore tori with a (closed) line of umbilics. To prove this, they formulate the condition of double periodicity in terms of the spectral curve and discuss some class of examples. For the constructed tori the Willmore functional is calculated. Graphics of a Willmore torus with a line of umbilics may be found in \textit{M. Heil's} thesis [Numerical Tools for the study of finite gap solutions of integrable systems; doctoral thesis, TU Berlin (1995)].