Minimal disks bounded by three straight lines in Euclidean space and trinoids in hyperbolic space
Differential Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Following Riemann's idea, we prove the existence of a minimal disk in Euclidean space bounded by three lines in generic position and with three helicoidal ends of angles less than . In the case of general angles, we prove that there exist at most four such minimal disks, we give a sufficient condition of existence in terms of a system of three equations of degree 2, and we give explicit formulas for the Weierstrass data in terms of hypergeometric functions. Finally, we construct constant-mean-curvature-one trinoids in hyperbolic space by the method of the conjugate cousin immersion.
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@article{arxiv.math/0307066,
title = {Minimal disks bounded by three straight lines in Euclidean space and trinoids in hyperbolic space},
author = {Benoit Daniel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0307066},
year = {2007}
}
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33 pages, 8 figures