Carleman approximation by conformal minimal immersions and directed holomorphic curves

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2019.123756MaRDI QIDQ2287349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ildefonso Castro-Infantes, Brett Chenoweth

Publication date 20 January 2020

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03215

zbMATH Keywords

Carleman theoremdirected holomorphic curveminimal surfaceOka manifoldRiemann surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oka principle and Oka manifolds (32Q56)

Abstract: Let $mathcalR$ be an open Riemann surface. In this paper we prove that every continuous function $Momathbb{R}^n$, $nge3$, defined on a divergent Jordan arc $MsubsetmathcalR$ can be approximated in the Carleman sense by conformal minimal immersions; thus providing a new generalization of Carleman's theorem. In fact, we prove that this result remains true for null curves and many other classes of directed holomorphic immersions for which the directing variety satisfies a certain flexibility property. Furthermore, the constructed immersions may be chosen to be complete or proper under natural assumptions on the variety and the continuous map. As a consequence we give an approximate solution to a Plateau problem for divergent Jordan curves in the Euclidean spaces.

Review text

A classical theorem of Carleman says that, given any continuous functions \(f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{C}\) and \(\varepsilon :\mathbb{R}\rightarrow (0,\infty )\), there is an entire function \(g:\mathbb{C}\rightarrow \mathbb{C}\) such that \(\left\vert f(x)-g(x)\right\vert <\varepsilon (x)\) when \(x\in \mathbb{R}\). This paper establishes several results of this nature related to minimal surface theory. Let \(S\) be a smooth properly embedded image of \(\mathbb{R}\) in an open Riemann surface \(\mathcal{R}\). It is shown that, given any continuous map \(X:S\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}\), \(n\geq 3\), and continuous function \(\varepsilon :S\rightarrow (0,\infty )\), there is a complete conformal minimal immersion \(\widetilde{X}:\mathcal{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}\) such that \(\left\Vert \widetilde{X}(p)-X(p)\right\Vert<\varepsilon (p)\) when \(p\in S\). An analogous result for directed immersions is also provided. Applications include an approximate solution to the Plateau problem for divergent paths.

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