Higher genus Riemann minimal surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00222-007-0056-ZMaRDI QIDQ2385049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Hauswirth, Frank Pacard

Publication date 11 October 2007

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511438

zbMATH Keywords

embedded minimal surfacesgenus \(k\) Costa-Hoffman-Meeks surfacemoduli space theoryRiemann minimal surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We construct higher genus Riemann's minimal surfaces properly embedded in the Euclidean space. To do that we glue end by end a Costa-Hoffman-Meeks examples to two halves genus zero Riemann's minimal surfaces. In first we need to perform a deformation of a Costa-Hoffman-Meeks example to prescribe the flux vector along the catenoidal ends. Then we study the mapping property of the Jacobi operator on the half Riemann example as a perturbation analysis of a CMC-Delaunay half cylinder.

Review text

The study of embedded minimal surfaces in Euclidean \(3\)-space can be traced back to B. Riemann who had constructed [\textit{B. Riemann}, Œuvres Mathématiques: Gauthier-Villars et Fils. (1898; JFM 29.0009.02)] a one-parameter family of periodic embedded minimal surfaces with infinitely many parallel ends. The classification of such surfaces, however, is still far from our reach even under certain geometric or topological constraints such as bounds for the numbers of ends and the genus. \textit{W. H. Meeks III, J. Perez} and \textit{A. Ros} [Invent. Math. 133, 107--132 (1998; Zbl 0916.53004); J. Differ. Geom. 66, No. 1, 1--45 (2004; Zbl 1068.53012); Invent. Math. 158, No. 2, 323--341 (2004, Zbl 1070.53003)] have made some progress in classifying genus zero embedded minimal surfaces that have infinitely many ends. It was conjectured in [J. Differ. Geom. 66, No. 1, 1--45 (2004)] that any embedded minimal surface of finite genus and with infinite number of ends is asymptotic to some middle planar ends and to two halves of a Riemann's surface. The paper under review gives a construction that produces, for any \(k\leq 37\), a one-parameter family of properly embedded minimal surfaces of genus \(k\) mentioned in the above conjecture. Their construction is actually a surgery on the Riemann's family part which can be understood as infinitely many horizontal planes at distance 1 from each other such that any two consecutive planes are connected by a slightly bent catenoid. The key idea is to replace one of the slightly bent catenoids by a genus \(k\) Costa-Hoffman-Meeks surface (a complete, properly embedded minimal surface with two catenoidal ends and one planar end). The main difficulty in the surgery is to bend the upper and lower end of the genus \(k\) Costa-Hoffman-Meeks surface and keep the middle end asymptotic to the horizontal plane at the same time. They use the moduli space theory for minimal surfaces with catenoidal ends and a nondegeneracy result of [\textit{S. Nayatani}, Comment. Math. Helv. 68, No. 4, 511--537 (1993; Zbl 0797.58018)] to show that the surgery is possible for \(k\leq 37\).

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