Teichmuller theory and handle addition for minimal surfaces
Teichmuller theory and handle addition for minimal surfaces
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Teichmuller 理论和最小曲面的手柄添加
DOI:
10.2307/3597281
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Michael Wolf
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作者:
Matthias J. Weber;Michael Wolf
We develop Teichmuller theoretical methods to construct new minimal surfaces in $\BE^3$ by adding handles and planar ends to existing minimal surfaces in $\BE^3$. We exhibit this method on an interesting class of minimal surfaces which are likely to be embedded, and have a low degree Gau\ss map for their genus; the (Weierstrass data) period problem for these surfaces is of arbitrary dimension.
In particular, we exhibit a two-parameter family of complete minimal surfaces in the Euclidean three-space $\BE^3$ which generalize the breakthrough minimal surface of C. Costa; these new surfaces are embedded (at least) outside a compact set, and are indexed (roughly) by the number of ends they have and their genus. They have at most eight self-symmetries despite being of arbitrarily large genus, and are interesting for a number of reasons. Moreover, our methods also extend to prove that some natural candidate classes of surfaces cannot be realized as minimal surfaces in $\BE^3$. As a result of both aspects of this work, we obtain a classification of a family of surfaces as either realizable or unrealizable as minimal surfaces.