Concentration of total curvature of minimal surfaces in H^2 R

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Abstract: We prove a phenomenon of concentration of total curvature for stable minimal surfaces in the product space H^2xR; where H^2 is the hyperbolic plane. Under some geometric conditions on the asymptotic boundary of an oriented stable minimal surface immersed in H^2xR, it has infinite total curvature. In particular, we infer that a minimal graph M in H^2xR whose asymptotic boundary is a graph over an arc of the asymptotic boundary of H^2, different from the asymptotic boundary of the boundary of M, has infinite total curvature. Consequently, if M is a stable minimal surface immersed into H^2xR with compact boundary, such that its asymptotic boundary is a graph over the whole asymptotic boundary of H^2; then it has infinite total curvature. We exhibit an example of a minimal graph such that in a domain whose asymptotic boundary is a vertical segment the total curvature is finite, but the total curvature of the graph is infinite, by the theorem cited before. We also present some simple and peculiar examples of infinite total curvature minimal surfaces in H^2xR and their asymptotic boundaries.


In this paper, the authors study a phenomenon of concentration of total curvature for stable minimal surfaces in the product space \(\mathbb H^2\times\mathbb R\), where \(\mathbb H^2\) is the hyperbolic plane. They prove that under some geometric conditions on the asymptotic boundary, an oriented stable minimal surface immersed in \(\mathbb H^2\times\mathbb R\) has infinite total curvature. Moreover, they construct a minimal graph such that in a domain whose asymptotic boundary is a vertical segment the total curvature is finite, but any neighborhood of another part of the asymptotic boundary has infinite total curvature. They also present some simple and peculiar examples of infinite total curvature minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb H^2\times\mathbb R\) and their asymptotic boundaries.



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