Characterizing classical minimal surfaces via the entropy differential

DOI10.1007/S12220-017-9759-6MaRDI QIDQ2411207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jacob Bernstein, Thomas Mettler

Publication date 20 October 2017

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1663

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsminimal surfacesSchwarzian derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

Abstract: We introduce on any smooth oriented minimal surface in Euclidean $3$-space a meromorphic quadratic differential, $P$, which we call the entropy differential. This differential arises naturally in a number of different contexts. Of particular interest is the realization of its real part as a conservation law for a natural geometric functional -- which is, essentially, the entropy of the Gauss curvature. We characterize several classical surfaces -- including Enneper's surface, the catenoid and the helicoid -- in terms of $P$. As an application, we prove a novel curvature estimate for embedded minimal surfaces with small entropy differential and an associated compactness theorem.

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