Unstable minimal spheres with degree-1 Gauss lift in hyperkähler 4-manifolds

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Autores principales: Foscolo, Lorenzo, Trinca, Federico
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author Foscolo, Lorenzo
Trinca, Federico
author_facet Foscolo, Lorenzo
Trinca, Federico
contents We exhibit new minimal 2-spheres in hyperkähler 4-manifolds arising from the Gibbons--Hawking ansatz and in the K3 manifold endowed with a hyperkähler metric. These minimal surfaces are obtained via a gluing construction using the Scherk surface in flat space and the holomorphic cigar in the Taub-NUT space as building blocks. As for the stable minimal 2-sphere in the Atiyah--Hitchin manifold, the minimal surfaces we construct are not holomorphic with respect to any complex structure compatible with the metric, have degree-1 positive Gauss lift so they can be parametrised by a harmonic map that satisfies a first-order Fueter-type PDE, and yet are unstable. This shows that there is no characterisation of stable minimal surfaces in hyperkähler 4-manifolds in terms of topological data.
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spellingShingle Unstable minimal spheres with degree-1 Gauss lift in hyperkähler 4-manifolds
Foscolo, Lorenzo
Trinca, Federico
Differential Geometry
53C40, 53C42
We exhibit new minimal 2-spheres in hyperkähler 4-manifolds arising from the Gibbons--Hawking ansatz and in the K3 manifold endowed with a hyperkähler metric. These minimal surfaces are obtained via a gluing construction using the Scherk surface in flat space and the holomorphic cigar in the Taub-NUT space as building blocks. As for the stable minimal 2-sphere in the Atiyah--Hitchin manifold, the minimal surfaces we construct are not holomorphic with respect to any complex structure compatible with the metric, have degree-1 positive Gauss lift so they can be parametrised by a harmonic map that satisfies a first-order Fueter-type PDE, and yet are unstable. This shows that there is no characterisation of stable minimal surfaces in hyperkähler 4-manifolds in terms of topological data.
title Unstable minimal spheres with degree-1 Gauss lift in hyperkähler 4-manifolds
topic Differential Geometry
53C40, 53C42
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20396