Publication Date
1995
Abstract
The spinor representation is developed and used to investigate minimal surfaces in R^3 with embedded planar ends. The moduli spaces of planar-ended minimal spheres and real projective planes are determined, and new families of minimal tori and Klein bottles are given. These surfaces compactify in S^3 to yield surfaces critical for the M¨obius invariant squared mean curvature functional W. On the other hand, all Wcritical spheres and real projective planes arise this way. Thus we determine at the same time the moduli spaces of W-critical spheres and real projective planes via the spinor representation.
Recommended Citation
Kusner, Rob and Schmitt, Nick, "The Spinor Representation of Minimal Surfaces" (1995). Mathematics and Statistics Department Faculty Publication Series. 4.
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Comments
This paper was harvested from ArXiv.org and ArXiv identifier is arXiv:9512003v1