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Complete Minimal Surfaces of Finite Total Curvature

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Kichoon Yang

    1. Department of Mathematics, Arkansas State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications (MAIA, volume 294)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Background Material

    • Kichoon Yang
    Pages 1-54

  3. Minimal Surfaces: General Theory

    • Kichoon Yang
    Pages 55-118

  4. Minimal Surfaces with Finite Total Curvature

    • Kichoon Yang
    Pages 119-142

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 143-160
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This monograph contains an exposition of the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean space, with an emphasis on complete minimal surfaces of finite total curvature. Our exposition is based upon the philosophy that the study of finite total curvature complete minimal surfaces in R3, in large measure, coincides with the study of meromorphic functions and linear series on compact Riemann sur­ faces. This philosophy is first indicated in the fundamental theorem of Chern and Osserman: A complete minimal surface M immersed in R3 is of finite total curvature if and only if M with its induced conformal structure is conformally equivalent to a compact Riemann surface Mg punctured at a finite set E of points and the tangential Gauss map extends to a holomorphic map Mg _ P2. Thus a finite total curvature complete minimal surface in R3 gives rise to a plane algebraic curve. Let Mg denote a fixed but otherwise arbitrary compact Riemann surface of genus g. A positive integer r is called a puncture number for Mg if Mg can be conformally immersed into R3 as a complete finite total curvature minimal surface with exactly r punctures; the set of all puncture numbers for Mg is denoted by P (M ). For example, Jorge and Meeks [JM] showed, by constructing an example g for each r, that every positive integer r is a puncture number for the Riemann surface pl.

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  • Department of Mathematics, Arkansas State University, USA

    Kichoon Yang

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