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Harmonic mappings and conformal minimal immersions of Riemann surfaces into $\mathbb{R}^n$

Differential Geometry 2010-07-23 v2

Abstract

We prove that for any open Riemann surface N,N, natural number n3,n\geq 3, non-constant harmonic map h:NRn2h:N\to \mathbb{R}^{n-2} and holomorphic 2-form HH on N,N, there exists a weakly complete harmonic map X=(Xj)j=1,,n:NRnX=(X_j)_{j=1,\ldots,n}:N \to \mathbb{R}^n with Hopf differential HH and (Xj)j=3,,n=h.(X_j)_{j=3,\ldots,n}=h. In particular, there exists a complete conformal minimal immersion Y=(Yj)j=1,,n:NRnY=(Y_j)_{j=1,\ldots,n}:N \to \mathbb{R}^n such that (Yj)j=3,,n=h.(Y_j)_{j=3,\ldots,n}=h. As a consequence of these results, complete full non-decomposable minimal surfaces with arbitrary conformal structure and whose generalized Gauss map is non-degenerate and fails to intersect nn hyperplanes of CPn1\mathbb{CP}^{n-1} in general position are constructed. Moreover, complete non-proper embedded minimal surfaces in Rn,\mathbb{R}^n, n>3,\forall n>3, are exhibited.

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@article{arxiv.1007.3124,
  title  = {Harmonic mappings and conformal minimal immersions of Riemann surfaces into $\mathbb{R}^n$},
  author = {Antonio Alarcon and Isabel Fernandez and Francisco J. Lopez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3124},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures, new title