On the totally ramified value number of the Gauss map of minimal surfaces

DOI10.3792/PJAA.82.1MaRDI QIDQ863735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yu Kawakami

Publication date 7 February 2007

Published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1138801815

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic minimal surfaceGauss mapminimal surfacetotally ramified value number (TRVN)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory (30D35) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Review text

The Gauss map of a non-flat complete regular minimal surface \(x: M\to\mathbb{R}^4\) in Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^3\) is a meromorphic function \(g\) on an open Riemannian surface \(M\). A totally ramified value of \(g\) is either an exceptional value \(a\in\mathbb{C}\cup\{\infty\}\) of \(g\) (being missed by \(g\)) or a value \( \in\mathbb{C}\cup\{\infty\}\) such that \(g\) branches at all the inverse image points of \(b\). Denote by \(D_g\) the number of exceptional values of \(g\). Then the totally ramified value number (TRVN) \(v_g\) of \(g\) is defined by \(v_g= D_g+\Sigma_j(1- 1/n_j)\), where \(n_j\) is the minimum of the multiplicities of \(g\) at the points \(g^{-1}(b_j)\). It is already known that \(D_g\leq v_g\leq 4\) (H. Fujimoto 1992) and, if \(x\) is a complete regular minimal surface with finite total curvature, \(D_g\leq 3\) (R. Ossermann 1964). The author proves that there exist algebraic minimal surfaces having \(v_g= 2.5\) (main theorem) and he shows (to be proved in a forthcoming note) that \(v_g< 4\). An open question is whether an algebraic minimal surface with \(v_g> 2.5\) exists.

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