External geometry of p-minimal surfaces

Publication date 7 September 1998

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0176

p-harmonic maps p-minimal surfaces p-minimal tubes quasiconformal Gauss map

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

Abstract: A surface M is called p-minimal if one of the coordinate functions is p-harmonic in the inner metric. We show that in the twodimensional case the Gaussian map of such surfaces is quasiconformal. In the case when the surface is a tube we study the geometrical structure of such surfaces. In particularly, we establish the second order differential inequality for the form of the sections of M which generalizes the known ones in the minimal surfaces theory.

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Let \({\mathcal M}\) be a hypersurface given by a \(C^2\)-immersion \(x:M\to\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) of an \(n\)-dimensional orientable noncompact manifold \(M\). For fixed \(p > 1\), \({\mathcal M}\) is said to be \(p\)-minimal if one of the coordinate functions is \(p\)-harmonic with respect to the inner metric of \(M\). The first part of the paper presents the basic facts of \(p\)-minimal surface theory, for example, it is shown that the Gauss map of a two-dimensional \(p\)-minimal surface is \(K(p)\)-quasiconformal. In further sections the shape of \(p\)-minimal tubes is studied. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0870.00032].

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