Higher-dimensional Scherk's hypersurfaces. (Q1606263)

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Higher-dimensional Scherk's hypersurfaces.
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    Higher-dimensional Scherk's hypersurfaces. (English)
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    24 July 2002
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    Let be given integers \(n\geq 3\) and \(1\leq m\leq n-1\) and a lattice \(\Gamma\subset \mathbb{R}^m\). Then the author constructs a one-parameter family \((S_\varepsilon)_{0< \varepsilon< \varepsilon_0}\) of embedded minimal hypersurfaces of \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1} \cong \mathbb{R}^{n-m}\times \mathbb{R}^m\times \mathbb{R}\), such that each of the hypersurfaces is periodic with respect to \(\Gamma\), invariant with respect to the group \(O(\mathbb{R}^{n-m})\) and with respect to the reflections in every hyperplane \(x_i=0\) and has four ends. With \(\varepsilon\to 0\) the sequence \(S_\varepsilon\) converges to the union of two copies of \(\mathbb{R}^n\times \{0\}\) (away from \(0\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\)) and the sequence \(\varepsilon^{-1} S_\varepsilon\) converges to an \(n\)-catenoid, which is a minimal hypersurface of revolution about the axis \(\{0\}\times \mathbb{R}\) with two hyperplanar ends. For \(m=n-1\) the hypersurfaces \(S_\varepsilon\) generalize Scherk's second minimal surfaces. The moduli space of these hypersurfaces forms a one-dimensional fibration over the moduli space of flat tori in \(\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\). \(S_\varepsilon\) is obtained by gluing together a hypersurface close to a truncated \(n\)-catenoid and an appropriate graph over the hyperplane \(\mathbb{R}^n\times \{0\}\) (outside of some ball).
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    minimal hypersurface in Euclidean space
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