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Real forms of complex surfaces of constant mean curvature

Differential Geometry 2012-03-09 v1

Abstract

It is known that complex constant mean curvature ({\sc CMC} for short) immersions in C3\mathbb C^3 are natural complexifications of {\sc CMC}-immersions in R3\mathbb R^3. In this paper, conversely we consider {\it real form surfaces} of a complex {\sc CMC}-immersion, which are defined from real forms of the twisted sl(2,C)\mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb C) loop algebra Λsl(2,C)σ\Lambda \mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb C)_\sigma, and classify all such surfaces according to the classification of real forms of Λsl(2,C)σ\Lambda \mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb C)_\sigma. There are seven classes of surfaces, which are called {\it integrable surfaces}, and all integrable surfaces will be characterized by the (Lorentz) harmonicities of their Gau{\ss} maps into the symmetric spaces S2S^2, H2H^2, S1,1S^{1,1} or the 4-symmetric space SL(2,C)/U(1)SL(2, \mathbb C)/U(1). We also give a unification to all integrable surfaces via the generalized Weierstra{\ss} type representation.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1718,
  title  = {Real forms of complex surfaces of constant mean curvature},
  author = {Shimpei Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1718},
  year   = {2012}
}