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Holomorphicity of parabolic stable minimal surfaces of high codimension

Differential Geometry 2025-09-29 v1

Abstract

A classical theorem of Micallef says that if F ⁣:(Σ,g)R4F \colon (\Sigma, g) \to \mathbb{R}^4 is a stable minimal immersion of an oriented 22-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold (that is parabolic) into R4\mathbb{R}^4, it is necessarily holomorphic with respect to some parallel orthogonal complex structure on R4\mathbb{R}^4. We generalize this theorem by replacing R4\mathbb{R}^4 with R2+2k\mathbb{R}^{2 + 2k} for any codimension 2k2k, under the additional hypothesis that the normal bundle NΣN \Sigma is equipped with a complex structure that is compatible with the induced metric and parallel with respect to the induced connection. This is a necessary assumption for such a theorem to hold, and it is automatically satisfied in the classical case k=1k=1. We also briefly discuss possible further generalizations of such a result to other calibrations and to Smith maps.

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@article{arxiv.2509.22155,
  title  = {Holomorphicity of parabolic stable minimal surfaces of high codimension},
  author = {Da Rong Cheng and Spiro Karigiannis and Jesse Madnick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.22155},
  year   = {2025}
}

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