Complete embedded harmonic surfaces in R^3

DOI10.1080/10586458.2014.985858zbMATH Open1320.53007arXiv1407.2870OpenAlexW1502104595MaRDI QIDQ5264653FDOQ5264653

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Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Embedded minimal surfaces of finite total curvature in $mathbb{R}^3$ are reasonably well understood: From far away, they look like intersecting catenoids and planes, suitably desingularized. We consider the larger class of harmonic embeddings in $mathbb{R}^3$ of compact Riemann surfaces with finitely many punctures where the harmonic coordinate functions are given as real parts of meromorphic functions. This paper is motivated by two outstanding features of such surfaces: They can have highly complicated ends, and they still have total Gauss curvature being a multiple of $2pi$. This poses the double challenge to construct and classify examples of fixed total Gauss curvature. Our results include - a classification of embedded harmonic ends of small total curvature, - the construction of examples of embedded ends of arbitrarily large total curvature, - a classification of complete embedded harmonic surfaces of small total curvature in the spirit of the corresponding classification of minimal surfaces of small total curvature, and - the largely experimental construction of complete embedded harmonic surfaces with non-trivial topology that incorporate some of the new harmonic ends.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2870

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zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet theoremtotal curvatureharmonic surfacesembedded ends

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

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• The Gauss-Bonnet formula for harmonic surfaces
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• \(H^3\) as a harmonic branched covering of \(E^3\)

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