Limit of Karcher's Saddle towers
Abstract
In 1988, Karcher generalized the family of singly periodic Scherk minimal surfaces by constructing, for each natural , a -parameter family of singly periodic minimal surfaces with genus zero and Scherk-type ends in the quotient, called {\it saddle towers}. They have been recently classified by P\'erez and Traizet \cite{PeTra1} as the only properly embedded singly periodic minimal surfaces in with genus zero and finitely many Scherk-type ends in the quotient. In this paper we obtain as a limit of saddle towers: the catenoid; the doubly periodic Scherk minimal surface of angle ; any singly periodic Scherk minimal surface; or a KMR example of the kind (also called {\it toroidal halfplane layer}, see \cite{ka4,mrod1}), which are doubly periodic minimal surfaces with parallel ends and genus one in the quotient; or one of the examples constructed in \cite{mrt}, which are singly periodic minimal surfaces with genus zero and one limit end in the quotient by all their periods.
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@article{arxiv.math/0611654,
title = {Limit of Karcher's Saddle towers},
author = {M. Magdalena Rodriguez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0611654},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure