New minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb S^3\) desingularizing the Clifford tori (Q261402)

The authors obtain infinitely many compact embedded minimal surfaces by desingularizing \(m\) Clifford tori which meet each other along a great circle at the angle of \(\pi/m\). The envisaged desingularization does not employ the gluing method, the possibility of which was discussed in [\textit{N. Kapouleas}, in: Surveys in geometric analysis and relativity. Somerville, MA: International Press; Beijing: Higher Education Press. 281--325 (2011; Zbl 1268.53007)]. The authors use the tesselation of \(\mathbb S^3\) by \(16m^2l\) (\(m\geq 2, l\geq 1\)) pentahedra and apply Lawson's method for the Jordan curve of \(6\) geodesic segments which is a subset of the \(1\)-skeleton of a pentahedron. The resulting compact embedded minimal surface has genus \(1+4m(m-1)l\) (Theorem 1). If \(\mathcal C_1\) is a great circle in \(\mathbb S^3\), there is the polar great circle \(\mathcal C_2\) of \(\mathcal C_1\), that is, \(\mathrm{dist}(p,q)=\pi/2\) for any \(p\in\mathcal C_1\) and \(q\in\mathcal C_2\). \(\mathcal C_1\) and \(\mathcal C_2\) are linked in \(\mathbb S^3\). If \(m\) Clifford tori meet each other along \(\mathcal C_1\), then they intersect each other along \(C_2\) as well. Once \(m\) Clifford tori are desingularized along \(\mathcal C_1\), there are two ways of desingularizing the tori along \(\mathcal C_2\). In this way, the authors obtain the second type (even) of minimal surfaces desingularizing \(m\) Clifford tori for each genus \(1+4m(m-1)l\), \(l\geq 2\) (Theorem 2). The obtained new minimal surfaces have no reflection symmetry.