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NEW COMPLEX ANALYTIC METHODS IN THE THEORY OF MINIMAL SURFACES: A SURVEY

Part of: Classical differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2018

ANTONIO ALARCÓN  and
FRANC FORSTNERIČ
ANTONIO ALARCÓN
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geometría y Topología e Instituto de Matemáticas (IEMath-GR), Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva s/n, E–18071 Granada, Spain email alarcon@ugr.es
FRANC FORSTNERIČ*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, and Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Jadranska 19, SI–1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia email franc.forstneric@fmf.uni-lj.si
*
✉franc.forstneric@fmf.uni-lj.si
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Abstract

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In this paper we survey recent developments in the classical theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces which have been obtained as applications of both classical and modern complex analytic methods; in particular, Oka theory, period dominating holomorphic sprays, gluing methods for holomorphic maps, and the Riemann–Hilbert boundary value problem. Emphasis is on results pertaining to the global theory of minimal surfaces, in particular, the Calabi–Yau problem, constructions of properly immersed and embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ and in minimally convex domains of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, results on the complex Gauss map, isotopies of conformal minimal immersions, and the analysis of the homotopy type of the space of all conformal minimal immersions from a given open Riemann surface.

Keywords

minimal surfaceRiemann surfaceOka manifold

MSC classification

Primary: 53A10: Minimal surfaces, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature

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Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 106 , Issue 3 , June 2019 , pp. 287 - 341
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

Antonio Alarcón is partially supported by the grants MTM2014-52368-P and MTM2017-89677-P from MINECO/FEDER, Spain. Franc Forstnerič is partially supported by the research program P1-0291 and the grant J1-7256 from ARRS, Republic of Slovenia.

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