Minimal tori in S^3

DOI10.2140/PJM.2007.233.41MaRDI QIDQ953016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emma Carberry

Publication date 14 November 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407304

zbMATH Keywords

immersions of toriintegrable systemsminimal surfacesspectral curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove existence results that give information about the space of minimal immersions of 2-tori into $S^3$. More specifically, we show that �egin{enumerate} item For every positive integer $n$, there are countably many real $n$-dimensional families of minimally immersed 2-tori in $S^3$. Every linearly full minimal immersion $T^{2}o{S}^3$ belongs to exactly one of these families. item Let $mathcalA$ be the space of rectangular 2-tori. There is a countable dense subset $mathcalB$ of $mathcalA$ such that every torus in $mathcalB$ can be minimally immersed into $S^3$. end{enumerate} The main content of this manuscript lies in finding minimal immersions that satisfy {�f periodicity conditions} and hence obtaining maps of tori, rather than simply immersions of the plane. We make use of a correspondence, established by Hitchin, between minimal tori in $S^3$ and algebraic curve data.

Review text

The author studies minimal immersions of tori in the 3-dimensional sphere \(S^3(1)\). The starting point of the study is the work of \textit{N. J. Hitchin} [J. Differ. Geom. 31, No.~3, 627--710 (1990; Zbl 0725.58010)], who established an explicit bijection between harmonic maps to tori in the 3-sphere and spectral curve data (which contains an hyperelliptic curve \(\Sigma\) and a line bundle over \(\Sigma\)). The main result of the paper shows that for any strictly positive number \(g\), there are countably many spectral curves of arithmetic genus \(g\) giving rise to minimal immersions from rectangular tori to \(S^3\). As a corollary it is shown that for each positive integer \(n\), there exist countably many real \(n\)-dimensional families of minimal immersions from rectangular tori to \(S^3\). Each of these families consists of maps from a fixed torus. The proof of the theorem naturally divides into 2 cases depending on whether \(g\) is even or odd. Whereas the even case is quite similar to previous results for minimal tori in \(\mathbb R^3\), the odd case needs more work. The paper also contains a list of some remaining open questions and problems related to minimal tori in \(S^3\).

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