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Limit of Karcher's Saddle towers

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In 1988, Karcher generalized the family of singly periodic Scherk minimal surfaces by constructing, for each natural n2n\geq 2, a (2n3)(2n-3)-parameter family of singly periodic minimal surfaces with genus zero and 2n2n 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 R3\R^3 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 π2\frac{\pi}{2}; any singly periodic Scherk minimal surface; or a KMR example of the kind M\t,\a,0M_{\t,\a,0} (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