Constructions of helicoidal minimal surfaces and minimal annuli in E(2)

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Abstract: In this article, we construct two one-parameter families of properly embedded minimal surfaces in a three-dimensional Lie group widetildeE(2), which is the universal covering of the group of rigid motions of Euclidean plane endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric. The first one can be seen as a family of helicoids, while the second one is a family of catenoidal minimal surfaces. The main tool that we use for the construction of these surfaces is a Weierstrass-type representation introduced by Meeks, Mira, P'erez and Ros for minimal surfaces in Lie groups of dimension three. In the end, we study the limit of the catenoidal minimal surfaces. As an application of this limit case, we get a new proof of a half-space theorem for minimal surfaces in widetildeE(2).


The author uses the Weierstrass representation for minimal surfaces in three-dimensional metric Lie groups introduced by \textit{W. H. Meeks III} et al. [J. Differ. Geom. 120, No. 2, 307--343 (2022; Zbl 1489.53014)] and \textit{W. H. Meeks III} and \textit{J. Pérez} [Contemp. Math. 570, 25--110 (2012; Zbl 1267.53006)] to construct in the first part a family of properly embedded minimal surfaces called helicoids. The methods in [\textit{B. Daniel} and \textit{L. Hauswirth}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 98, No. 2, 445--470 (2009; Zbl 1163.53036); \textit{C. Desmonts}, Pac. J. Math. 276, No. 1, 143--166 (2015; Zbl 1319.53062)] are used to construct a family of catenoidal minimal surfaces which can be regarded as an analogue of the classical catenoids in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\) in the universal covering of the group of rigid motions of Euclidean plane endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric \(\widetilde{E(2)}\). The author studies the limit of the catenoidal minimal surfaces (the parameter tends to \(+\infty\)) and gives a new proof of a half-space theorem for minimal surfaces in \(\widetilde{E(2)}\) as a particular case of a more general result of \textit{L. Mazet} [Am. J. Math. 135, No. 3, 801--834 (2013; Zbl 1281.53060)].











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