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All superconformal surfaces in \R^4 in terms of minimal surfaces

Differential Geometry 2007-10-30 v2

Abstract

We give an explicit construction of any simply-connected superconformal surface ϕ ⁣:M2R4\phi\colon M^2\to \R^4 in Euclidean space in terms of a pair of conjugate minimal surfaces g,h ⁣:M2R4g,h\colon M^2\to\R^4. That ϕ\phi is superconformal means that its ellipse of curvature is a circle at any point. We characterize the pairs (g,h)(g,h) of conjugate minimal surfaces that give rise to images of holomorphic curves by an inversion in R4\R^4 and to images of superminimal surfaces in either a sphere \Sf4\Sf^4 or a hyperbolic space \Hy4\Hy^4 by an stereographic projection. We also determine the relation between the pairs (g,h)(g,h) of conjugate minimal surfaces associated to a superconformal surface and its image by an inversion. In particular, this yields a new transformation for minimal surfaces in R4\R^4.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5317,
  title  = {All superconformal surfaces in \R^4 in terms of minimal surfaces},
  author = {Marcos Dajczer and Ruy Tojeiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5317},
  year   = {2007}
}