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Counting Minimal Surfaces in Quasi-Fuchsian three-Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2013-05-13 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

It is well known that every quasi-Fuchsian manifold admits at least one closed incompressible minimal surface, and at most finitely many of them. In this paper, for any prescribed integer N>0N>0, we construct a quasi-Fuchsian manifold which contains at least 2N2^N such minimal surfaces. As a consequence, there exists some simple close Jordan curve on S2S^2_\infty such that there are at least 2N2^N disk-type complete minimal surface in H3\mathbb{H}^3 sharing this Jordan curve as the asymptotic boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1204.4944,
  title  = {Counting Minimal Surfaces in Quasi-Fuchsian three-Manifolds},
  author = {Zheng Huang and Biao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4944},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

22 pages, 9 figures, changes made following referee's many corrections and suggestions. Accepted by the Transactions of the AMS