Minimal surfaces and the new main inequality

DOI10.54330/AFM.143716MaRDI QIDQ6562479zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Vladimir Markovic, Nathaniel Sagman

Publication date 26 June 2024

Published in Annales Fennici Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.54330/AFM.143716

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsminimal surfacesnew main inequalityquasiconformal mapsreal trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasiconformal mappings in (mathbb{R}^n), other generalizations (30C65) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, variational methods (30C70) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Review text

Let \(S\) be a Riemann surface and let \(\phi_1,\ldots, \phi_n\) be integrable holomorphic quadratic differentials on \(S\) whose sum is zero, and \(f_1, \ldots, f_n : S\to S'\) mutually homotopic quasiconformal maps to another Riemann surface with Beltrami forms \(\mu_1,\ldots, \mu_n\). The ``new main inequality holds if\N\[\N\mathrm{Re} \sum_{i=1}^{n}\int_S\phi_i.\frac{\mu_i}{1-\vert\mu_i\vert^2} \leq \sum_{i=1}^{n}\int_S\vert \phi \vert. \frac{\vert\mu_i\vert^2}{1-\vert\mu_i\vert^2} .\N\]\NThis was introduced by the first author as a tool to study minimal surfaces in products of hyperbolic surfaces in [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 53, No. 4, 1196--1204 (2021; Zbl 1478.53070); Geom. Funct. Anal. 32, No. 1, 31--52 (2022; Zbl 1492.53081)]. In the paper under review, the authors use the new main inequality as a minimizing criterion for minimal maps into products of \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees. The infinitesimal version of the new main inequality is established as a stability criterion for minimal maps to \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The authors also develop a new perspective on destabilizing minimal surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). As an application, they give a new proof of the instability of some classical minimal surfaces, including the most well known unstable minimal surface, namely the Enneper surface.

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