English

The uniqueness of the Enneper surfaces and Chern-Ricci functions on minimal surfaces

Differential Geometry 2017-02-02 v2

Abstract

We construct the first and second Chern-Ricci functions on negatively curved minimal surfaces in R3{\mathbb{R}}^{3} using Gauss curvature and angle functions, and establish that they become harmonic functions on the minimal surfaces. We prove that a minimal surface has constant first Chern-Ricci function if and only if it is Enneper's surface. We explicitly determine the moduli space of minimal surfaces having constant second Chern-Ricci function, which contains catenoids, helicoids, and their associate families.

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@article{arxiv.1701.05958,
  title  = {The uniqueness of the Enneper surfaces and Chern-Ricci functions on minimal surfaces},
  author = {Hojoo Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.05958},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Typos corrected, Remark 3.4 revised, Theorem 1.3 restated