Existence of the tetragonal and rhombohedral deformation families of the gyroid

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2021.70.8505zbMATH Open1479.53011arXiv1901.04006OpenAlexW2913693471MaRDI QIDQ3380490FDOQ3380490

Hao Chen

Publication date: 29 September 2021

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide an existence proof for two 1-parameter families of embedded triply periodic minimal surfaces of genus three, namely the tG family with tetragonal symmetry that contains the gyroid, and the rGL family with rhombohedral symmetry that contains the gyroid and the Lidinoid, both discovered numerically in the 1990s. The existence was previously proved within a neighborhood of the gyroid and the Lidinoid, using Weierstrass data defined on branched rectangular tori. Our main contribution is to extend the technique to branched tori that are not necessarily rectangular.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04006

zbMATH Keywords

triply periodic minimal surfacesgyroidWeierstrass data4-fold saddle towersLidinoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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