Minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere by stacking Clifford tori

Abstract: Extending work of Kapouleas and Yang, for any integers

N g e q 2

,

k, e l l g e q 1

, and

m

sufficiently large, we apply gluing methods to construct in the round

3

-sphere a closed embedded minimal surface that has genus

k e l l m^{2} (N - 1) + 1

and is invariant under a

D_{k m} i m e s D_{e l l m}

subgroup of

O (4)

, where

D_{n}

is the dihedral group of order

2 n

. Each such surface resembles the union of

N

nested topological tori, all small perturbations of a single Clifford torus

m a t h b b T

, that have been connected by

k e l l m^{2} (N - 1)

small catenoidal tunnels, with

k e l l m^{2}

tunnels joining each pair of neighboring tori. In the large-

m

limit for fixed

N

,

k

, and

e l l

, the corresponding surfaces converge to

m a t h b b T

counted with multiplicity

N

.

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