Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces
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| author | Georgiou, Nikos Guilfoyle, Brendan |
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| contents | Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces of constant curvature have been considered recently, particularly as these products arise as spaces of oriented geodesics of 3-dimensional space-forms. This papers considers more general Riemannian products of surfaces and explores geometric and topological restrictions that arise for minimal surfaces. We show that generically, a totally geodesic surface in a Riemannian product is locally either a slice or a product of geodesics. If the Gauss curvatures of the factors are negative, it is proven that there are no minimal 2-spheres, while minimal 2-tori are Lagrangian with respect to both product symplectic structures. If the surfaces have non-zero bounded curvatures, we establish a sharp lower bound on the area of minimal 2-spheres and explore the properties of the Gauss and normal curvatures of general compact minimal surfaces. |
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| spellingShingle | Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces Georgiou, Nikos Guilfoyle, Brendan Differential Geometry Primary 53C42, Secondary 53C50 Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces of constant curvature have been considered recently, particularly as these products arise as spaces of oriented geodesics of 3-dimensional space-forms. This papers considers more general Riemannian products of surfaces and explores geometric and topological restrictions that arise for minimal surfaces. We show that generically, a totally geodesic surface in a Riemannian product is locally either a slice or a product of geodesics. If the Gauss curvatures of the factors are negative, it is proven that there are no minimal 2-spheres, while minimal 2-tori are Lagrangian with respect to both product symplectic structures. If the surfaces have non-zero bounded curvatures, we establish a sharp lower bound on the area of minimal 2-spheres and explore the properties of the Gauss and normal curvatures of general compact minimal surfaces. |
| title | Minimal surfaces in the Riemannian product of surfaces |
| topic | Differential Geometry Primary 53C42, Secondary 53C50 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06618 |