Minimal surfaces for Hitchin representations

DOI10.4310/JDG/1557281006MaRDI QIDQ2632927zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Song Dai, Qiongling Li

Publication date 15 May 2019

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09596, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1557281006, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/95768/

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf differentialrigidityminimal surfaceequivariant harmonic mapreductive representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Generalized geometries (à la Hitchin) (53D18)

Abstract: Given a reductive representation $ho:p{i}_1(S)ightarrowG$, there exists a $ho$-equivariant harmonic map $f$ from the universal cover of a fixed Riemann surface $Sigma$ to the symmetric space $G/K$ associated to $G$. If the Hopf differential of $f$ vanishes, the harmonic map is then minimal. In this paper, we investigate the properties of immersed minimal surfaces inside symmetric space associated to a subloci of Hitchin component: $q_n$ and $q_{n-1}$ case. First, we show that the pullback metric of the minimal surface dominates a constant multiple of the hyperbolic metric in the same conformal class and has a strong rigidity property. Secondly, we show that the immersed minimal surface is never tangential to any flat inside the symmetric space. As a direct corollary, the pullback metric of the minimal surface is always strictly negatively curved. In the end, we find a fully decoupled system to approximate the coupled Hitchin system.

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