Ahlfors-Weill Extensions for a Class of Minimal Surfaces

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Authors: Martin Chuaqui, Peter Duren, Brad G. Osgood 

Publication date: 26 May 2010

Abstract: The Ahlfors-Weill extension of a conformal mapping of the disk is generalized to the lift of a harmonic mapping of the disk to a minimal surface, producing homeomorphic and quasiconformal extensions. The extension is obtained by a reflection across the boundary of the surface using a family of Euclidean circles orthogonal to the surface. This gives a geometric generalization of the Ahlfors-Weill formula and extends the minimal surface. Thus one obtains a homeomorphism of $overlinemathbbC$ onto a toplological sphere in $overlinemathbb{R}^3=mathbb{R}^{3}cupinfty$ that is real-analytic off the boundary. The hypotheses involve bounds on a generalized Schwarzian derivative for harmonic mappings in term of the hyperbolic metric of the disk and the Gaussian curvature of the minimal surface. Hyperbolic convexity plays a crucial role.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geometric function theory (30C99)

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