Uniformization of embedded surfaces
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Schwarz-Christoffel-type mappings (30C30) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Classification theory of Riemann surfaces (30F20) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)
Abstract: Let X be a closed surface of genus two embedded in the 3-sphere. Then X inherits a metric and an orientation, which give an almost complex structure, which automatically integrates to a genuine complex structure, making X a Riemann surface. It follows that X is conformally isomorphic to a branched cover of the Riemann sphere, or to the quotient of the unit disc by the action of a Fuchsian group. The theorems behind these statements are important, well-known, and a century old. Nonetheless, we believe that the literature contains no examples where a significant fraction of the structure can be made explicit. This monograph is a partially successful attempt to provide such an example, starting with a particular surface X that has interesting geometry. The required theory is surprisingly rich, and is supported by a large body of Maple code, which is used for semi-formal verification of many proofs, as well as for numerical calculation.
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