A rigidity theorem for periodic minimal surfaces (Q1290896)
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A rigidity theorem for periodic minimal surfaces (English)
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1 November 2000
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The principal result of this paper is the following: the helicoid is the only properly embedded non rigid minimal surface in \(\mathbb R^3\) that is invariant by an infinite discrete group \(G\) of rigid motions such that the quotient surface in \(\mathbb R^3/G\) has finite topology.
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minimal surfaces
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flux
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helicoid
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