English

Uniqueness and non-uniqueness for the asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space

Differential Geometry 2024-09-19 v2

Abstract

We prove several results on the number of solutions to the asymptotic Plateau problem in H3\mathbb H^3. Firstly we discuss criteria that ensure uniqueness. Given a Jordan curve Λ\Lambda in the asymptotic boundary of H3\mathbb H^3, we show that uniqueness of the minimal surfaces with asymptotic boundary Λ\Lambda is equivalent to uniqueness in the smaller class of stable minimal disks. Then we show that if a quasicircle (or more generally, a Jordan curve of finite width) Λ\Lambda is the asymptotic boundary of a minimal surface Σ\Sigma with principal curvatures less than or equal to 1 in absolute value, then uniqueness holds. In the direction of non-uniqueness, we construct an example of a quasicircle that is the asymptotic boundary of uncountably many pairwise distinct stable minimal disks.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00599,
  title  = {Uniqueness and non-uniqueness for the asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space},
  author = {Zheng Huang and Ben Lowe and Andrea Seppi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00599},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Revised version, large parts of the paper have been rewritten, arguments simplified and improved, details added, main results unchanged

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