Minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere by doubling the equatorial two-sphere. II

DOI10.1002/CPA.21854zbMATH Open1457.53047arXiv1707.08526OpenAlexW2963901840MaRDI QIDQ5204846FDOQ5204846

Authors: Nikolaos Kapouleas, Peter McGrath 

Publication date: 5 December 2019

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In earlier work of NK new closed embedded smooth minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere $mathbb{S}^3(1)$ were constructed, each resembling two parallel copies of the equatorial two-sphere $mathbb{S}_{eq}^2$ joined by small catenoidal bridges, with the catenoidal bridges concentrating along two parallel circles, or the equatorial circle and the poles. In this sequel we generalize those constructions so that the catenoidal bridges can concentrate along an arbitrary number of parallel circles, with the further option to include bridges at the poles. The current constructions follow the Linearized Doubling (LD) methodology developed before and the LD solutions constructed here can be modified readily for use to doubling constructions of rotationally symmetric minimal surfaces with asymmetric sides (work in progress). In particular they allow us to develop in this forthcoming work doubling constructions for the catenoid in Euclidean three-space, the critical catenoid in the unit ball, and the spherical shrinker of the mean curvature flow. Our constructions here allow for sequences of minimal surfaces where the catenoidal bridges tend to be "densely distributed", that is do not miss any open set of $mathbb{S}_{eq}^2$ in the limit. This in particular leads to interesting observations which seem to suggest that it may be impossible to construct embedded minimal surfaces with isolated singularities by concentrating infinitely many catenoidal necks at a point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08526

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zbMATH Keywords

catenoidal bridgeslinearized doubling (LD) solutionsspherical shrinker

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) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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