Minimal surfaces in spheres and a Ricci-like condition

DOI10.1007/S00229-020-01254-7MaRDI QIDQ2664583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amalia-Sofia Tsouri, T. Vlachos

Publication date 17 November 2021

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12715

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesRicci-like conditionspheres

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 deal with minimal surfaces in spheres that are locally isometric to a pseudoholomorphic curve in a totally geodesic $mathbb{S}^5$ in the nearly K{"a}hler sphere $mathbb{S}^6$. Being locally isometric to a pseudoholomorphic curve in $mathbb{S}^5$ turns out to be equivalent to the Ricci-like condition $Deltalog(1-K)=6K,$ where $K$ is the Gaussian curvature of the induced metric. Besides flat minimal surfaces in spheres, direct sums of surfaces in the associated family of pseudoholomorphic curves in $mathbb{S}^5$ do satisfy this Ricci-like condition. Surfaces in both classes are exceptional surfaces. These are minimal surfaces whose all Hopf differentials are holomorphic, or equivalently the curvature ellipses have constant eccentricity up to the last but one. Under appropriate global assumptions, we prove that minimal surfaces in spheres that satisfy this Ricci-like condition are indeed exceptional. Thus, the classification of these surfaces is reduced to the classification of exceptional surfaces that are locally isometric to a pseudoholomorphic curve in $mathbb{S}^5.$ In fact, we prove, among other results, that such exceptional surfaces in odd dimensional spheres are flat or direct sums of surfaces in the associated family of a pseudoholomorphic curve in $mathbb{S}^5$.

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