The Cauchy problem for the Liouville equation and Bryant surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2004.08.007MaRDI QIDQ2484430zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors José A. Gálvez, Pablo Mira

Publication date 1 August 2005

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310092

zbMATH Keywords

Bjorling problemBryant surfacesconstant mean curvaturehyperbolic spaceLiouville equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: We give a construction that connects the Cauchy problem for Liouville elliptic equation with a certain initial value problem for mean curvature one surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space H3, and solve both of them. We construct the only mean curvature one surface in H3 that passes through a given curve with given unit normal along it, and provide diverse applications. In particular, topics like period problems, symmetries, finite total curvature, planar geodesics, rigidity, etc. of surfaces are treated.

Review text

In 1987, R. Bryant derived a holomorphic representation formula for surfaces with constant mean curvature one in the standard \(3\)-dimensional hyperbolic space \(H^3\), which is analogous to the classical Weierstrass representation formula for minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). After Bryant's work, people started to use the term \textit{Bryant surfaces} when referring to surfaces with constant mean curvature in \(H^3\). In the paper under review the authors give a construction that connects the Cauchy problem for the \(2\)-dimensional elliptic Liouville equation with a certain initial value problem for Bryant surfaces in \(H^3\), and solve both of them. They construct the unique Bryant surface in \(H^3\) that passes through a given curve with a given unit normal along it, and provide diverse applications. In particular, topics such as period problems, symmetries, finite total curvature, planar geodesic, rigidity, etc. are treated for these surfaces.

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