Logarithmically spiraling helicoids

DOI10.4310/CAG.2018.V26.N3.A1MaRDI QIDQ724439zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christine Breiner, Stephen James Kleene

Publication date 26 July 2018

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6996

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacespartial differential equationsperturbation methodsdifferential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: We construct helicoid-like embedded minimal disks with axes along self-similar curves modeled on logarithmic spirals. The surfaces have a self-similarity inherited from the curves and the nature of the construction. Moreover, inside of a "logarithmic cone", the surfaces are embedded.

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