Examples of area-minimizing surfaces in 3-manifolds

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNS266zbMATH Open1297.53040arXiv1210.4356OpenAlexW3105547418MaRDI QIDQ2878720FDOQ2878720

Authors: Baris Coskunuzer 

Publication date: 5 September 2014

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we give some examples of area minimizing surfaces to clarify some well-known features of these surfaces in more general settings. The first example is about Meeks-Yau's result on embeddedness of solution to the Plateau problem. We construct an example of a simple closed curve in R^3 which lies in the boundary of a mean convex domain in R^3, but the area minimizing disk in R^3 bounding this curve is not embedded. Our second example shows that Brian White's boundary decomposition theorem does not extend when the ambient space has nontrivial homology. Our last examples show that there are properly embedded absolutely area minimizing surfaces in a mean convex 3-manifold M such that while their boundaries are disjoint, they intersect each other nontrivially.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4356

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zbMATH Keywords

ambient spacePlateau problemproperly embeddedmean convex 3-manifold

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)

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• Area minimizing surfaces in mean convex 3-manifolds
• Area-minimizing tori in 3-manifolds
• Uniqueness of area minimizing surfaces for extreme curves
• Existence of embedded minimal disks
• Embedded Plateau problem
• Concentration of total curvature of minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb {H}^2\times \mathbb R\)

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