Minimal surfaces in flat tori (Q1589992)

The authors prove the following result: given a nonhyperelliptic Riemann surface \((\Sigma,\mu)\) of genus \(\gamma\geq 4\), there exists a conformal stable minimal immersion \(f:(\Sigma,\mu)\rightarrow ({\mathbb R}^{2\gamma}/\Delta, \text{eucl})\) into a flat torus, which is not holomorphic with respect to any complex structure compatible with the flat metric. The nonhyperelliptic assumption is essential, because the first author proved in [Complex differential geometry and nonlinear differential equations, Proc. AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Res. Conf., Brunswick/Maine 1984, Contemp. Math. 49, 73-78 (1986; Zbl 0588.53040)], that if \(\Sigma\) is a hyperelliptic Riemann surface, any conformal stable immersion of \(\Sigma\) into a flat torus \(({\mathbb R}^m /\Delta,\text{eucl})\) is an even dimensional totally geodesic flat torus \(T\) and that it is holomorphic with respect to an integrable complex structure compatible with the flat metric on \(T\). The of idea proof is to start with a holomorphic map from \(\Sigma\) into a flat complex torus \(({\mathbb C}^n /\Delta,\text{eucl})\), and to deform the map and the metric on the torus, but not the conformal structure on \(\Sigma\), in such a way as to destroy holomorphicity but not minimality, stability and conformality.