The topological, geometry and conformal structure of properly embedded minimal surfaces
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Abstract: This paper develops new tools for understanding surfaces with more than one end (and usually, of infinite topology) which properly minimally embed into Euclidean three-space. On such a surface, the set of ends forms a compact Hausdorff space, naturally ordered by the relative heights of the ends in space. One of our main results is that the middle ends of the surface have quadratic area growth, and are thus not limit ends. This implies, for instance, that the surface can have at most two limit ends (at the top and bottom of the ordering), which is a strong topological restriction. There are also restrictions on the asymptotic geometry and conformal structure of such a surface: for example, we prove that if the surface has exactly two limit ends (as do the classical Riemann Staircase examples), then it is recurrent (that is, almost all Brownian paths are dense in the surface, and in particular any positive harmonic function on the surface is constant). These results have played an important role in the proof of several recent advances in the theory, including the uniqueness of the helicoid, the invariance of flux for a coordinate function on a properly immersed minimal surface, and the topological classification of properly embedded minimal surfaces.
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