Solving period problems for minimal surfaces with the support function

MaRDI QIDQ3087175zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Valério Ramos Batista, Frank E. Baginski

Publication date 16 August 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4179

zbMATH Keywords

doubly periodic minimal surfaceelliptic integralsminimal surfacesingly periodic surfacesupport function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: In this paper we show how to bypass the usual difficulties in the analysis of elliptic integrals that arise when solving period problems for minimal surfaces. The method consists of replacing period problems with ordinary Sturm-Liouville problems involving the support function. We give a practical application by proving existence of the sheared Scherk-Karcher family of surfaces numerically described by Wei. Moreover, we show that this family is continuous, and both of its limit-members are the singly periodic genus-one helicoid.

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