Second variation of one-sided complete minimal surfaces (Q1955671): Difference between revisions

The author studies the stability and the index of complete minimal surfaces in some 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds like the 3-dimensional unit sphere \(\mathbb S^3\), the 3-dimensional real projective space \(\mathbb {RP}^3\), the Riemannian products \(\mathbb S^2 \times \mathbb {R, S}^2 \times \mathbb S^1\), \(\mathbb{RP}^2 \times \mathbb R\), \(\mathbb{RP}^2 \times \mathbb S^1\). Many interesting results are well known for compact surfaces. If the surface is non compact the author demonstrates that the index is infinite in some of the above cases. Also, in other cases, he classifies the stable ones, under certain conditions.