Surfaces of constant mean curvature one in the hyperbolic three-space with irregular ends (Q5949607)

The author investigates surfaces of constant mean curvature one (briefly CMC-1 surfaces) in the hyperbolic 3-space. It is known that a complete CMC-1 surface with finite total curvature may have either regular ends or irregular ends. In case of an irregular end, the hyperbolic Gauss map cannot meromorphically extend up to this end. It was conjectured by \textit{M. Umehara} and \textit{K. Yamada} [Tsukuba J. Math. 21, 229-237 (1997; Zbl 1027.53010)] that no irregular ends of CMC-1 surfaces are embedded. In the present paper the author proves this conjecture. The investigations for deriving the above result rely mainly on a hyperbolic analogue of the Weierstrass representation which is used for a CMC-1 surface [see \textit{R. L. Bryant}, Astérisque 154-155, 321-347 (1988; Zbl 0635.53047)] and on an asymptotic analysis of ordinary linear differential equations with irregular singular points. Furthermore, he gives an explicit representation of a CMC-1 surface and of a new minimal surface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). The latter one may be written as NEWLINE\[NEWLINEx_1= \text{Re} \left[{2 \sinh (2z)\over z}-\cosh (2z)\right],\;x_2=\text{Im}\left[{2 \cosh(2z)\over z}-\sinh (2z)\right],\;x_3=\text{Re}\left [2z+{2\over z}\right].NEWLINE\]NEWLINE{}.