Minimal tori with low nullity

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2011.02.057zbMATH Open1221.53092arXiv0711.1712OpenAlexW2051416692MaRDI QIDQ534735FDOQ534735

Oscar M. Perdomo, David L. Johnson

Publication date: 10 May 2011

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nullity of a minimal submanifold $Msubset{S}^n$ is the dimension of the nullspace of the second variation of the area functional. That space contains as a subspace the effect of the group of rigid motions $SO(n+1)$ of the ambient space, modulo those motions which preserve $M$, whose dimension is the Killing nullity $kn(M)$ of $M$. In the case of 2-dimensional tori $M$ in $S^3$, there is an additional naturally-defined 2-dimensional subspace; the dimension of the sum of the action of the rigid motions and this space is the natural nullity $nnt(M)$. In this paper we will study minimal tori in $S^3$ with natural nullity less than 8. We construct minimal immersions of the plane $R^2$ in $S^3$ that contain all possible examples of tori with $nnt(M)<8$. We prove that the examples of Lawson and Hsiang with $kn(M)=5$ also have $nnt(M)=5$, and we prove that if the $nnt(M)le6$ then the group of isometries of $M$ is not trivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1712

zbMATH Keywords

nullityminimal tori on spheresstability operator

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)

Cites Work

• Complete minimal surfaces in \(S^ 3\)
• Minimal submanifolds of low cohomogeneity
• On the classification of constant mean curvature tori
• Rigidity of minimal surfaces in S 3

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