A characterization of the periodic Callahan-Hoffman-Meeks surfaces in terms of their symmetries

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-97-08920-1MaRDI QIDQ1373181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francisco Martín, Domingo Rodríguez

Publication date 22 November 1998

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/s0012-7094-97-08920-1

zbMATH Keywords

endsminimal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Examples of complete embedded minimal surfaces \(M_k\), for each integer \(k>0\), in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), with an infinite number of ends such that \(M_k\) modulo a cyclic group of translations \({\mathfrak {F}}\) has genus \(2k+1\) and two ends, were constructed by \textit{M. Callahan, D. Hoffman} and \textit{W. H. Meeks III} [Invent. Math. 96, 459-505 (1989; Zbl 0676.53004); ibid. 99, 455-481 (1990; Zbl 0695.53005)]. In the paper under review, the authors study in depth the Callahan-Hoffman-Meeks surfaces \(M_k\). More precisely, their main result is the following interesting Theorem. Let \(\widetilde M\) be a properly embedded minimal surface in \({\mathbb{R}}^3\) satisfying the following: (i) \(\widetilde M\) has an infinite number of annular ends; (ii) \(\widetilde M\) is invariant under a cyclic group of translations \({\mathfrak {F}}\); (iii) \(\widetilde M/{\mathfrak {F}}\) has genus \(\rho, \rho\geq 2,\) and two ends; (iv) Iso(\(\widetilde M/{\mathfrak {F}}\)) has at least \(4(\rho + 1)\) elements. Then \(\rho \) is odd and \(\widetilde M\) is the Callahan-Hoffman-Meeks example of genus \(\rho \). To obtain this result, the authors first describe explicitly the Weierstrass representation of a surface satisfying (i)-(iv) and then give a new interesting approach to the unique solution of the period problem for these surfaces. This fact was conjectured by Callahan, Hoffman and Meeks in the above mentioned papers.

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