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Structure theorems for singular minimal laminations

Differential Geometry 2016-11-24 v2

Abstract

We apply the local removable singularity theorem for minimal laminations and the local picture theorem on the scale of topology to obtain two descriptive results for certain possibly singular minimal laminations of R3\mathbb{R}^3. These two global structure theorems will be applied in forthcoming papers to obtain bounds on the index and the number of ends of complete, embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus and finite topology in R3\mathbb{R}^3, and to prove that a complete, embedded minimal surface in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with finite genus and a countable number of ends is proper.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03197,
  title  = {Structure theorems for singular minimal laminations},
  author = {William H. Meeks and Joaquin Perez and Antonio Ros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03197},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

43 pages, 7 figures. Bibliography updated and reorganized the paper

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