Equivariant minimal surfaces in CH^2 and their Higgs bundles

DOI10.4310/AJM.2019.V23.N1.A5MaRDI QIDQ1741604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian McIntosh, John Loftin

Publication date 6 May 2019

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00553

zbMATH Keywords

complex hyperbolic planeHiggs bundleminimal surfaceToledo invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: This paper gives a construction for all minimal immersions $f$ of the Poincar'{e} disc into the complex hyperbolic plane $mathbb{CH}^2$ which are equivariant with respect to an irreducible representation $ho$ of a hyperbolic surface group into $PU(2,1)$. We exploit the fact that each such immersion is a twisted conformal harmonic map and therefore has a corresponding Higgs bundle. We identify the structure of these Higgs bundles and show how each is determined by properties of the map, including the induced metric and a holomorphic cubic differential on the surface. We show that the moduli space of pairs $(ho,f)$ is a disjoint union of finitely many complex manifolds, whose structure we fully describe. The holomorphic (or anti-holomorphic) maps provide multiple components of this union, as do the non-holomorphic maps. Each of the latter components has the same dimension as the representation variety for $PU(2,1)$, and is indexed by the number of complex and anti-complex points of the immersion. These numbers determine the Toledo invariant and the Euler number of the normal bundle of the immersion. We show that there is an open set of quasi-Fuchsian representations of Toledo invariant zero for which the minimal surface is unique and Lagrangian.

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