Unstable minimal surfaces in \mathbb{R}^n and in products of hyperbolic surfaces

Authors Vladimir Markovic, Nathaniel Sagman, Peter Smillie

Publication date 6 June 2022

Abstract: We prove that every unstable equivariant minimal surface in

m a t h b b R^{n}

produces a maximal representation of a surface group into

p r o d_{i = 1}^{n} e x t r m P S L (2, m a t h b b R)

together with an unstable minimal surface in the corresponding product of closed hyperbolic surfaces. To do so, we lift the surface in

m a t h b b R^{n}

to a surface in a product of

m a t h b b R

-trees, then deform to a surface in a product of closed hyperbolic surfaces. We show that instability in one context implies instability in the other two.

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