Distortions of the helicoid

DOI10.1007/S10711-008-9290-9zbMATH Open1282.49030arXiv0805.4775OpenAlexW1965652960MaRDI QIDQ956701FDOQ956701

Authors: Jacob Bernstein, Christine Breiner 

Publication date: 25 November 2008

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Colding and Minicozzi have shown that an embedded minimal disk $0inSigmasubset{B}_R$ in $Rea{l}^3$ with large curvature at 0 looks like a helicoid on the scale of $R$. Near 0, this can be sharpened: on the scale of $|A{|}^{-1}(0)$, $Sigma$ is close, in a Lipschitz sense, to a piece of a helicoid. We use surfaces constructed by Colding and Minicozzi to see this description cannot hold on the scale $R$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4775

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesdifferential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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