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The space of complete embedded maximal surfaces with isolated singularities in the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show that a complete embedded maximal surface in the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space L3L^3 with a finite number of singularities is, up to a Lorentzian isometry, an entire graph over any spacelike plane asymptotic to a vertical half catenoid or a horizontal plane and with conelike singular points. We study the space GnG_n of entire maximal graphs over {x3=0}\{x_3=0\} in L3L^3 with n+12n+1 \geq 2 conelike singularities and vertical limit normal vector at infinity. We show that GnG_n is a real analytic manifold of dimension 3n+4,3n+4, and the coordinates are given by the position of the singular points in R3R^3 and the logarithmic growth at the end. We also introduce the moduli space MnM_n of {\em marked} graphs with n+1n+1 singular points (a mark in a graph is an ordering of its singularities), which is a (n+1)(n+1)-sheeted covering of Gn.G_n. We prove that identifying marked graphs differing by translations, rotations about a vertical axis, homotheties or symmetries about a horizontal plane, the corresponding quotient space MnM_n is an analytic manifold of dimension 3n1.3n-1.

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@article{arxiv.math/0311330,
  title  = {The space of complete embedded maximal surfaces with isolated singularities in the 3-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space $\l^3$},
  author = {Isabel Fernandez and Francisco J. Lopez and Rabah Souam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0311330},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

32 pages, 4 figures, corrected typos, former Theorem 3.3 (now Theorem 2.2) modified