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Stability of Helicoids in Hyperbolic Three-Dimensional Space

Differential Geometry 2015-02-18 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

For a family of minimal helicoids H_a in the hyperbolic 3-space, there exists a constant a_c=2.17966 such that the following statements are true: (1) H_a is a globally stable minimal surface if 0<=a<=a_c, and (2) H_a is an unstable minimal surface with index one if a>a_c.

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@article{arxiv.1502.04764,
  title  = {Stability of Helicoids in Hyperbolic Three-Dimensional Space},
  author = {Biao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04764},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures

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