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Minimal surface system in Euclidean four-space

Differential Geometry 2017-06-20 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Generalizing the Cauchy-Riemann equations, we construct the Osserman system of the first order for a pair (f(x,y),g(x,y))\left(f(x, y), g(x,y) \right) of two R{\mathbb{R}}-valued functions on the domain ΩR2\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^{2}. The graph {(x,y,f(x,y),g(x,y))R4(x,y)Ω}\left\{\, \left(x, y, f(x, y), g(x,y) \right) \in {\mathbb{R}}^{4} \, \vert \, (x,y) \in \Omega \, \right\} becomes a minimal surface in R4{\mathbb{R}}^{4}, whose generalized Gauss map lies on the intersection of a hyperplane of the complex projective space CP3{\mathbb{CP}}^{3} and the complex cone z12+z22+z32+z42=0{z_1}^{2}+{z_2}^{2}+{z_3}^{2}+{z_4}^{2}=0. We present two applications of the Lagrangian potential on minimal graphs in R3{\mathbb{R}}^{3}. First, we deform a minimal graph Σ0{\Sigma}_{0} in R3{\mathbb{R}}^{3} to the one parameter family of the two dimensional minimal graph Σλ{\Sigma}_{\lambda} in R4{\mathbb{R}}^{4} with the invariance of the metric (det(gΣλ))12gΣλ{\left(\det{ \left( {\mathbf{g}}_{{\Sigma}_{\lambda}} \right) }\right)}^{- \frac{1}{2}} {\mathbf{g}}_{{\Sigma}_{\lambda}}. Second, we construct the three dimensional special Lagrangian graphs in R6=C3{\mathbb{R}}^{6}={\mathbb{C}}^{3}.

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@article{arxiv.1706.05751,
  title  = {Minimal surface system in Euclidean four-space},
  author = {Hojoo Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05751},
  year   = {2017}
}
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