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Main Author: Katsuta, Shuhei
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26258
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contents H. Fujimoto showed that for a complete minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^m$, if the Gauss map is non-degenerate, then it omits at most $\frac{m(m + 1)}{2}$ hyperplanes in the complex projective space $\mathbb{P}^{m - 1}$ in general position, and that the number $\frac{m(m + 1)}{2}$ is best possible for all odd integers $m \geq 3$ and for even integers with $4 \leq m \leq 16$. In this paper, we prove that the number $\frac{m(m + 1)}{2}$ is also best possible for all even integers $m \geq 4$, as conjectured by Fujimoto. The main tool is a special planar network $(Γ_0, ω)$ in the theory of positive matrices.
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spellingShingle The Fujimoto Conjecture via Total Positivity
Katsuta, Shuhei
Differential Geometry
Combinatorics
53A10, 30D35, 15B48
H. Fujimoto showed that for a complete minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^m$, if the Gauss map is non-degenerate, then it omits at most $\frac{m(m + 1)}{2}$ hyperplanes in the complex projective space $\mathbb{P}^{m - 1}$ in general position, and that the number $\frac{m(m + 1)}{2}$ is best possible for all odd integers $m \geq 3$ and for even integers with $4 \leq m \leq 16$. In this paper, we prove that the number $\frac{m(m + 1)}{2}$ is also best possible for all even integers $m \geq 4$, as conjectured by Fujimoto. The main tool is a special planar network $(Γ_0, ω)$ in the theory of positive matrices.
title The Fujimoto Conjecture via Total Positivity
topic Differential Geometry
Combinatorics
53A10, 30D35, 15B48
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26258