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Generalized Henneberg stable minimal surfaces

Differential Geometry 2022-07-28 v2

Abstract

We generalize the classical Henneberg minimal surface by giving an infinite family of complete, finitely branched, non-orientable, stable minimal surfaces in R3\mathbb{R}^3. These surfaces can be grouped into subfamilies depending on a positive integer (called the complexity), which essentially measures the number of branch points. The classical Henneberg surface H1H_1 is characterized as the unique example in the subfamily of the simplest complexity m=1m=1, while for m2m\geq 2 multiparameter families are given. The isometry group of the most symmetric example HmH_m with a given complexity mNm\in \mathbb{N} is either isomorphic to the dihedral isometry group D2m+2D_{2m+2} (if mm is odd) or to Dm+1×Z2D_{m+1}\times \mathbb{Z}_2 (if mm is even). Furthermore, for mm even HmH_m is the unique solution to the Bj\"orling problem for a hypocycloid of m+1m+1 cusps (if mm is even), while for mm odd the conjugate minimal surface HmH_m^* to HmH_m is the unique solution to the Bj\"orling problem for a hypocycloid of 2m+22m+2 cusps.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01099,
  title  = {Generalized Henneberg stable minimal surfaces},
  author = {David Moya and Joaquín Pérez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01099},
  year   = {2022}
}
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