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Alexandrov immersions, holonomy and minimal surfaces in $S^3$

Differential Geometry 2017-02-21 v2

Abstract

We prove that compact 3-manifolds MM of constant curvature +1 with boundary a minimal surface are locally naturally parametrized by the conformal class of the boundary metric γ\gamma in the Teichmuller space of M\partial M, when genus(M)2genus(\partial M) \geq 2. Stronger results are obtained in the case of genus 1 boundary, giving in particular a new proof of Brendle's solution of the Lawson conjecture. The results generalize to constant mean curvature surfaces, and surfaces in flat and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1407.6925,
  title  = {Alexandrov immersions, holonomy and minimal surfaces in $S^3$},
  author = {Michael T Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6925},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

withdrawn for reconstruction. Error in the "stability argument" on p.22