The Gauss map of surfaces in PSL₂( R)

DOI10.1007/S00526-014-0721-1MaRDI QIDQ2017805zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Benoît Daniel, Isabel Fernández, Pablo Mira

Publication date 23 March 2015

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1491

zbMATH Keywords

\(\widetilde{\mathrm {PSL}}_2(\mathbb{R})\)Gauss mapHeisenberg groupsurface of critical mean curvature (CMC)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: We define a Gauss map for surfaces in the universal cover of the Lie group PSL_2(R) endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric having a 4-dimensional isometry group. This Gauss map is not related to the Lie group structure. We prove that the Gauss map of a nowhere vertical surface of critical constant mean curvature is harmonic into the hyperbolic plane H^2 and we obtain a Weierstrass-type representation formula. This extends results in H^2 x R and the Heisenberg group Nil_3, and completes the proof of existence of harmonic Gauss maps for surfaces of critical constant mean curvature in any homogeneous manifold diffeomorphic to R^3 with isometry group of dimension at least 4.

Review text

In this interesting paper the authors define a smooth Gauss map for the smooth surfaces in \(\widetilde{\mathrm {PSL}}_2(\mathbb{R})\) taking values in a \(2\)-sphere (Section 3). They prove that the Gauss maps of CMC local graphs with critical mean curvature in \(\widetilde{\mathrm {PSL}}_2(\mathbb{R})\) are harmonic maps into \(\mathbb{H}^2\) (Section 5). Other results of the first author directly connected to this topic are contained in the papers [Comment. Math. Helv. 82, No. 1, 87--131 (2007; Zbl 1123.53029); Int. Math. Res. Not. 2011, No. 3, 674--695 (2011; Zbl 1209.53048)] and with \textit{L. Hauswirth} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 98, No. 2, 445--470 (2009; Zbl 1163.53036)], with the third author [J. Reine Angew. Math. 685, 1--32 (2013; Zbl 1305.53062)]. Some other papers of the second and the third authors are [Differ. Geom. Appl. 25, No. 3, 281--289 (2007; Zbl 1125.53007); Am. J. Math. 129, No. 4, 1145--1181 (2007; Zbl 1182.53058)] and [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 361, No. 11, 5737--5752 (2009; Zbl 1181.53051)].

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