Bryant surfaces with smooth ends

DOI10.4310/CAG.2009.V17.N4.A1zbMATH Open1203.53055arXivmath/0411480OpenAlexW1979193375MaRDI QIDQ987897FDOQ987897

Authors: Christoph Bohle, G. Paul Peters 

Publication date: 2 September 2010

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A smooth end of a Bryant surface is a conformally immersed punctured disc of mean curvature 1 in hyperbolic space that extends smoothly through the ideal boundary. The Bryant representation of a smooth end is well defined on the punctured disc and has a pole at the puncture. The Willmore energy of compact Bryant surfaces with smooth ends is quantized. It equals 4Pi times the total pole order of its Bryant representation. The possible Willmore energies of Bryant spheres with smooth ends are 4Pi*d where d is a positive integer different from 2,3,5,7. Bryant spheres with smooth ends are examples of soliton spheres, a class of rational conformal immersions of the sphere which also includes Willmore spheres in the conformal 3-sphere. We give explicit examples of Bryant spheres with an arbitrary number of smooth ends. We conclude the paper by showing that Bryant's quartic differential Q vanishes identically for a compact surface in the 3-sphere if and only if it is the compactification of either a complete finite total curvature Euclidean minimal surface with planar ends or a compact Bryant surface with smooth ends.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411480

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zbMATH Keywords

Willmore energyBryant sphere with smooth endsBryant surfaceBryant's quartic differentialsmooth Bryant end

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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