Properly embedded minimal planar domains

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2015.181.2.2zbMATH Open1315.53008arXiv1306.1690OpenAlexW2123343089MaRDI QIDQ2255290FDOQ2255290

Joaquín Pérez, Antonio Ros, William H. III Meeks

Publication date: 9 February 2015

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1997, Collin proved that any properly embedded minimal surface in $mathbb{R}^3$ with finite topology and more than one end has finite total Gaussian curvature. Hence, by an earlier result of Lopez and Ros, catenoids are the only non-planar, non-simply connected, properly embedded, minimal planar domains in $mathbb{R}^3$ of finite topology. In 2005, Meeks and Rosenberg proved that the only simply connected, properly embedded minimal surfaces in $mathbb{R}^3$ are planes and helicoids. Around 1860, Riemann defined a one-parameter family of periodic, infinite topology, properly embedded, minimal planar domains $mathcal{R}_t$ in $mathbb{R}^3$, $tin(0,infty)$. These surfaces are called the Riemann minimal examples, and the family ${mathcal{R}_t}_t$ has natural limits being a vertical catenoid as $to0$, and a vertical helicoid as $toinfty$. In this paper we complete the classification of properly embedded, minimal planar domains in $mathbb{R}^3$ by proving that the only connected examples with infinite topology are the Riemann minimal examples. We also prove that the limit ends of Riemann minimal examples are model surfaces for the limit ends of properly embedded minimal surfaces $Msubsetmathbb{R}^3$ of finite genus and infinite topology, in the sense that such an $M$ has two limit ends, each of which has a representative which is naturally asymptotic to a limit end representative of a Riemann minimal example with the same associated flux vector.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1690

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zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi functionstabilityKorteweg-de Vries equationminimal surfacefinite total curvatureKdV hierarchyindex of stabilitycurvature estimateslimit tangent plane at infinityShiffman function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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