Minimal twin surfaces

DOI10.1080/10586458.2017.1413455MaRDI QIDQ4972534zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hao Chen

Publication date 25 November 2019

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07926

zbMATH Keywords

surface evolvertriply periodic minimal surfacestwin lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: We report some minimal surfaces that can be seen as copies of a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) related by reflections in parallel mirrors. We call them minimal twin surfaces for the resemblance with twin crystal. Brakke's Surface Evolver is employed to construct twinnings of various classical TPMS, including Schwarz' Primitive (P) and Diamond (D) surfaces, their rhombohedral deformations (rPD), and Schoen's Gyroid (G) surface. Our numerical results provide strong evidences for the mathematical existence of D twins and G twins, which are recently observed in experiment by material scientists. For rPD twins, we develop a good understanding, by noticing examples previously constructed by Traizet (2008) and Fujimori and Weber (2009). Our knowledge on G twins is, by contrast, very limited. Nevertheless, our experiments lead to new cubic polyhedral models for the D and G surfaces, inspired by which we speculate new TPMS deformations in the framework of Traizet.

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Uses Software

• Surface Evolver
• SageMath
• mpmath

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