The space of equivariant harmonic tori in the 3-sphere

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103808zbMATH Open1448.53071arXiv2001.09790OpenAlexW3002792579MaRDI QIDQ2201716FDOQ2201716

Ross Ogilvie, Emma Carberry

Publication date: 17 September 2020

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we give an explicit parametrisation of the moduli space of equivariant harmonic maps from a 2-torus to the 3-sphere. As Hitchin proved, a harmonic map of a 2-torus is described by its spectral data, which consists of a hyperelliptic curve together with a pair of differentials and a line bundle. The space of spectral data is naturally a fibre bundle over the space of spectral curves. For homogeneous tori the space of spectral curves is a disc and the bundle is trivial. For tori with a one-dimensional invariance group, we enumerate the path connected components of the space of spectral curves and show that they are either `helicoids' or annuli, and that they densely foliate the parameter space. The bundle structure of the moduli space of spectral data over the annuli components is nontrivial. In the two cases, the spectral data require only elementary and elliptic functions respectively and we give explicit formulae at every stage. Homogeneous tori and the Gauss maps of Delaunay cylinders are used as illustrative examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09790

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsintegrable systemsminimal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30)

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