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Stability Properties of Rotational Catenoids in the Heisenberg Groups

Differential Geometry 2019-10-07 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the maximally stable, rotationally invariant domains on the catenoids \cCa\cC_a (minimal surfaces invariant by rotations) in the Heisenberg group with a left-invariant metric. We show that these catenoids have Morse index at least 3 and we bound the index from above in terms of the parameter aa. We also show that the index of \cCa\cC_a tends to infinity with aa. Finally, we study the rotationally symmetric stable domains on the higher dimensional catenoids.

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@article{arxiv.1010.0774,
  title  = {Stability Properties of Rotational Catenoids in the Heisenberg Groups},
  author = {Pierre Bérard and Marcos P. Cavalcante},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0774},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Final version to appear in Matem\'atica Contempor\^anea (Sociedade Brasileira de Matem\'atica)