Uniqueness of minimal surfaces, Jacobi fields, and flat structures

DOI10.1090/PROC/14941MaRDI QIDQ5111516zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hojoo Lee

Publication date 27 May 2020

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01401

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic functionsminimal surfacesJacobi fieldsScherk's surfaceflat structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: Inspired by the Finn-Osserman (1964), Chern (1969), do Carmo-Peng (1979) proofs of the Bernstein theorem, which characterizes flat planes as the only entire minimal graphs, we prove a new rigidity theorem for associate families connecting the doubly periodic Scherk graphs and the singly periodic Scherk towers. Our characterization of Scherk's surfaces discovers a new idea from the original Finn-Osserman curvature estimate. Combining two generically independent flat structures introduced by Chern and Ricci, we shall construct geometric harmonic functions on minimal surfaces, and establish that periodic minimal surfaces admit fresh uniqueness results.

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