Properly embedded minimal disks bounded by noncompact polygonal lines

DOI10.2140/PJM.2004.214.55MaRDI QIDQ706065zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonor Ferrer, Francisco Martín

Publication date 16 February 2005

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2004.214.55

zbMATH Keywords

noncompact boundaryPlateau's problemproperly embedded minimal disk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Review text

The authors study Plateau's problem in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) for a special noncompact boundary configuration consisting of a pair of two congruent \(U\)-shaped piecewise linear curves \(\Gamma^+\) and \(\Gamma^-\). More precisely, \(\Gamma^+\) is a planar curve made of two parallel halflines \(\ell^+_1\), \(\ell^+_2\) together with a finite line segment \(\ell^+_0\) joining the endpoints of \(\ell^+_1\) and \(\ell^+_2\) and meeting both halflines under a right angle. \(\Gamma^+\) is the result of a rotation of \(\Gamma^+\) around an axis which is coplanar with \(\Gamma^+\), parallel to \(\ell^+_0\), but does not meet interior points of \(\ell^+_j\). Thus, \(\Gamma^+\) and \(\Gamma^-\) determine a wedge in a slab \(S\) of \(\mathbb{R}^3\). The authors ascertain the precise number of disc type minimal surfaces contained in \(S\) and spanning \(\Gamma^+\cup\Gamma^-\). This number is between 0 and 4 and depends on the distance of \(\Gamma^+\) and \(\Gamma^-\) and the angle of the rotation carrying \(\Gamma^+\) into \(\Gamma^-\). The analysis is based on an explicit determination of the Weierstrass data of possible solutions. Symmetry considerations are fundamental.

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