Coplanar k-Unduloids Are Nondegenerate

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNP058zbMATH Open1176.53018arXiv0712.1865OpenAlexW1979077913MaRDI QIDQ3181981FDOQ3181981

Authors: Karsten Große-Brauckmann, Nicholas J. Korevaar, Robert B. Kusner, Jesse Ratzkin, John M. Sullivan 

Publication date: 1 October 2009

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

Abstract: We prove each embedded, constant mean curvature (CMC) surface in Euclidean space with genus zero and finitely many coplanar ends is nondegenerate: there is no nontrivial square-integrable solution to the Jacobi equation, the linearization of the CMC condition. This implies that the moduli space of such coplanar surfaces is a real-analytic manifold and that a neighborhood of these in the full CMC moduli space is itself a manifold. Nondegeneracy further implies (infinitesimal and local) rigidity in the sense that the asymptotes map is an analytic immersion on these spaces, and also that the coplanar classifying map is an analytic diffeomorphism.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1865

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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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