Minimal surfaces over the Pitot quadrilaterals
Abstract
We develop a fully explicit framework for constructing Scherk-type minimal graphs over the Pitot quadrilaterals (i.e. such that the two pairs of opposite sides have the same total length). For any Pitot quadrilateral , we first produce a harmonic diffeomorphism of the unit disk onto , whose dilatation is the square of a M\"obius automorphism determined directly by the vertices of . Using this map as the Weierstrass data, we obtain a minimal graph whose Gauss map is a univalent M\"obius transformation and whose height function exhibits alternating blow-up behavior along opposite sides of , mirroring the classical Scherk surfaces. We further construct an associated canonical surface , with the same boundary asymptotics, and prove a sharp curvature comparison theorem: at the harmonic center of , among all bounded minimal graphs with matching normal direction and mixed derivative, uniquely maximizes the absolute Gaussian curvature. This provides a complete and constructive description of Scherk-type minimal graphs over all, both convex or concave, Pitot quadrilaterals.
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@article{arxiv.2512.01029,
title = {Minimal surfaces over the Pitot quadrilaterals},
author = {Vladimir Dragović and David Kalaj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01029},
year = {2025}
}
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17 pages