Congruence of minimal surfaces and higher fundamental forms

DOI10.1007/S00229-002-0310-ZMaRDI QIDQ1865663zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors T. Vlachos

Publication date 27 March 2003

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-002-0310-z

zbMATH Keywords

curvature ellipsesHopf differentialsminimal surfacesspace forms

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 author proves that minimal surfaces in space forms are determined, up to ambient isometries, by the Hopf differentials and the induced metric. Hopf differentials in this context are higher order invariants which generalize the well known Hopf differential. In order to prove the main result the author makes use of the \(r\)th curvature ellipses (which have also been used in the study of Willmore surfaces).

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