Gluing doubly periodic Scherk surfaces into minimal surfaces

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Main Authors: Chen, Hao, Wu, Yunhua
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author Chen, Hao
Wu, Yunhua
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Wu, Yunhua
contents We construct minimal surfaces by stacking doubly periodic Scherk surfaces one above another and gluing them along their ends. It is previously known that the Karcher--Meeks--Rosenberg (KMR) doubly periodic minimal surfaces and Meeks' family of triply periodic minimal surfaces can both be obtained by gluing two Scherk surfaces. There have been hope and failed attempts to glue more Scherk surfaces. But our analysis shows that: Except for the special case where the doubly periodic Scherk surfaces all have triangular horizontal lattice, a glue construction can only produce the trivial Scherk surface itself, the KMR examples, or Meeks' surfaces.
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spellingShingle Gluing doubly periodic Scherk surfaces into minimal surfaces
Chen, Hao
Wu, Yunhua
Differential Geometry
53A10
We construct minimal surfaces by stacking doubly periodic Scherk surfaces one above another and gluing them along their ends. It is previously known that the Karcher--Meeks--Rosenberg (KMR) doubly periodic minimal surfaces and Meeks' family of triply periodic minimal surfaces can both be obtained by gluing two Scherk surfaces. There have been hope and failed attempts to glue more Scherk surfaces. But our analysis shows that: Except for the special case where the doubly periodic Scherk surfaces all have triangular horizontal lattice, a glue construction can only produce the trivial Scherk surface itself, the KMR examples, or Meeks' surfaces.
title Gluing doubly periodic Scherk surfaces into minimal surfaces
topic Differential Geometry
53A10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12859