Finite topology minimal surfaces in homogeneous three-manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2017.03.015MaRDI QIDQ526349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joaquín Pérez, William H. III Meeks

Publication date 10 May 2017

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06764

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityinjectivity radiusminimal surfaceminimal laminationminimal parking garage structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove that any complete, embedded minimal surface $M$ with finite topology in a homogeneous three-manifold $N$ has positive injectivity radius. When one relaxes the condition that $N$ be homogeneous to that of being locally homogeneous, then we show that the closure of $M$ has the structure of a minimal lamination of $N$. As an application of this general result we prove that any complete, embedded minimal surface with finite genus and a countable number of ends is compact when the ambient space is $mathbb{S}^3$ equipped with a homogeneous metric of nonnegative scalar curvature.

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