Ricci surfaces

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201206_007MaRDI QIDQ2792155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrei Moroianu, Sergiu Moroianu

Publication date 8 March 2016

Published in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze. Serie V (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1620

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian curvatureminimal surfacesRicci surfacesRiemannian 2-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: A Ricci surface is a Riemannian 2-manifold $(M,g)$ whose Gaussian curvature $K$ satisfies $KDeltaK+g(dK,dK)+4K^3=0$. Every minimal surface isometrically embedded in $mathbb{R}^3$ is a Ricci surface of non-positive curvature. At the end of the 19th century Ricci-Curbastro has proved that conversely, every point $x$ of a Ricci surface has a neighborhood which embeds isometrically in $mathbb{R}^3$ as a minimal surface, provided $K(x)<0$. We prove this result in full generality by showing that Ricci surfaces can be locally isometrically embedded either minimally in $mathbb{R}^3$ or maximally in $mathbb{R}^{2,1}$, including near points of vanishing curvature. We then develop the theory of closed Ricci surfaces, possibly with conical singularities, and construct classes of examples in all genera $ggeq2$.

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