The splitting and deformations of the generalized Gauss map of compact CMC surfaces

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1178224851MaRDI QIDQ1292766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Reiko Miyaoka

Publication date 2 May 2001

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2748/tmj/1178224851

zbMATH Keywords

constant mean curvaturegeneralized Gauss mapharmonic mapLawson's conjectureminimal surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Review text

The study of constant mean curvature surfaces in the 3-sphere, which are often called CMC surfaces, has a long and interesting development and it continues to attract the attention of differential geometers. In the paper under review, the author proves that the generalized Gauss map of CMC surfaces in the 3-sphere globally splits into two non-conformal harmonic maps into the 2-sphere. As a corollary of this result, it is proved that a full superconformal minimal surface in \(S^{4m}\) cannot be isometric to a minimal surface in the 3-sphere \(S^3\), which gives a partial answer to Lawson's conjecture.

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