From minimal surfaces and CMC surfaces to harmonic maps

Author(s):  
Frédéric Hélein
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Robert Ream

AbstractIn this paper we study an analog of minimal surfaces called Weyl-minimal surfaces in conformal manifolds with a Weyl connection (M4, c, D). We show that there is an Eells-Salamon type correspondence between nonvertical 𝒥-holomorphic curves in the weightless twistor space and branched Weyl-minimal surfaces. When (M, c, J) is conformally almost-Hermitian, there is a canonical Weyl connection. We show that for the canonical Weyl connection, branched Weyl-minimal surfaces satisfy the adjunction inequality\chi \left( {{T_f}\sum } \right) + \chi \left( {{N_f}\sum } \right) \le \pm {c_1}\left( {f*{T^{\left( {1,0} \right)}}M} \right).The ±J-holomorphic curves are automatically Weyl-minimal and satisfy the corresponding equality. These results generalize results of Eells-Salamon and Webster for minimal surfaces in Kähler 4-manifolds as well as their extension to almost-Kähler 4-manifolds by Chen-Tian, Ville, and Ma.


1999 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 939-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Aiyama ◽  
K. Akutagawa ◽  
R. Miyaoka ◽  
M. Umehara
Keyword(s):  

Author(s):  
Ruijun Wu

AbstractWe investigate the coupling of the minimal surface equation with a spinor of harmonic type. This arises as the Euler–Lagrange equations of the sum of the volume functional and the Dirac action, defined on an appropriated Dirac bundle. The solutions show a relation to Dirac-harmonic maps under some constraints on the energy-momentum tensor, extending the relation between Riemannian minimal surface and harmonic maps.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document