Decomposition of the height function of Scherk's first surface.

DOI10.1016/S0893-9659(01)00046-5MaRDI QIDQ5950586zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Randall D. Kamien

Publication date 2 January 2002

Published in Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0008039

zbMATH Keywords

decompositiondilated helicoidsinfinite superpositionminimal surfacesScherk surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: We show that Scherk's first surface, a one-parameter family of solutions to the minimal surface equation, may be written as a linear superposition of other solutions with specific parametric values.

Review text

Scherk's first surfaces form a one-parameter family of complete doubly periodic minimal surfaces. Taking appropriate limits in this family one obtains the helicoid. In this paper, using identities satisfied by the arc tangent function, it is proved that any Scherk's first surface can be decomposed either into an infinite superposition of dilated helicoids (Theorem~1) or into a finite superposition of dilated Scherk's first surfaces (Theorem~2).

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