Minimal planes in hyperbolic space

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Abstract: We show a generic finiteness result for least area planes in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. Moreover, we prove that the space of minimal immersions of disk into hyperbolic space is a submanifold of a product bundle over a space of immersions of circle into sphere at infinity. The bundle projection map when restricted to this submanifold is Fredholm of index zero. By using this result, we also show that the space of minimal planes with smooth boundary curve at infinity is a manifold.


The author studies the space of all immersed minimal planes in the hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{H}^{3}\) with asymptotically smooth boundaries. Recall that the extended hyperbolic space \(\overline{\mathbb{H}}^{3}\)is obtained by adding to \(\mathbb{H}^{3}\) points of the sphere at infinity \(S_{\infty}^{2}(\mathbb{H}^{3}) \); the asymptotic boundary of an immersed hyperbolic space is its boundary in \(S_{\infty}^{2}(\mathbb{H}^{3}) \). One of the author's main results states that the set of all immersed minimal planes in the hyperbolic space with at least \(C^{3}\)-smooth asymptotic boundary is a manifold. In addition, it is proved that the space of all minimal immersions is a submanifold of the product bundle \(C^{3,\alpha}(S^{1} ,S^{2}) \times C^{3}(S^{1},S^{1}) \) and the bundle projection is a Fredholm mapping of index zero. The author also proves the following finiteness theorem: if \(\Gamma\) is a \(C^{3,\alpha}\)-Jordan curve in the sphere at infinity, then the space of all minimal planes spanning \(\Gamma\) is finite. It is well known that each minimal immersion of a hyperbolic plane is a conformal harmonic mapping from the unit disk into \(\mathbb{H}^{3}\). The results by \textit{P. Li} and \textit{L. F. Tam} [Ann. Math. (2) 137, No. 1, 167--201 (1993; Zbl 0776.58010), Indiana Univ. Math. J. 42, No. 2, 591--635 (1993; Zbl 0790.58011)] on existence and uniqueness of harmonic extensions in \(\mathbb{H}^{3}\) enable the author to reduce the study of the set of conformal harmonic mappings to the study of the set of their induced boundary parametrizations \(\partial D^{2}\rightarrow S_{\infty}^{2}(\mathbb{H}^{3}) \).











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