A characterization of constant p-mean curvature surfaces in the Heisenberg group H₁

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108514zbMATH Open1506.53070arXiv2101.11780OpenAlexW4281945078MaRDI QIDQ2155197FDOQ2155197

Hung-Lin Chiu, Hsiao-Fan Liu

Publication date: 15 July 2022

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In Euclidean $3$-space, it is well known that the Sine-Gordon equation was considered in the nineteenth century in the course of investigations of surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature $K=-1$. Such a surface can be constructed from a solution to the Sine-Gordon equation, and vice versa. With this as motivation, employing the fundamental theorem of surfaces in the Heisenberg group $H_1$, we show in this paper that the existence of a constant $p$-mean curvature surface (without singular points) is equivalent to the existence of a solution to a nonlinear second-order ODE (1.2), which is a kind of {�f Li'{e}nard equations}. Therefore, we turn to investigate this equation. It is a surprise that we give a complete set of solutions to (1.2) (or (1.5)), and hence use the types of the solution to divide constant $p$-mean curvature surfaces into several classes. As a result, after a kind of normalization, we obtain a representation of constant $p$-mean curvature surfaces and classify further all constant $p$-mean curvature surfaces. In Section 9, we provide an approach to construct $p$-minimal surfaces. It turns out that, in some sense, generic $p$-minimal surfaces can be constructed via this approach. Finally, as a derivation, we recover the Bernstein-type theorem which was first shown in [3] (or see [7,8]).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11780

zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg group[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Li%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDnard+equation&go=Go Li��nard equation]Bernstein theorem\(p\)-minimal surfacePansu sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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• Sub-Riemannian constant mean curvature surfaces in the Heisenberg group as limits
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