The Area and the Volume of a Constant Mean Curvature Surface

Author(s):  
Rafael López
2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIMPEI KOBAYASHI ◽  
JUN-ICHI INOGUCHI

We show that Bianchi–Bäcklund transformation of a constant mean curvature surface is equivalent to the Darboux transformation and the simple type dressing.


2008 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kilian ◽  
W. Rossman ◽  
N. Schmitt

AbstractThe generalized Weierstrass representation is used to analyze the asymptotic behavior of a constant mean curvature surface that arises locally from an ordinary differential equation (ODE) with a regular singularity. We prove that a holomorphic perturbation of an ODE that represents a Delaunay surface generates a constant mean curvature surface which has a properly immersed end that is asymptotically Delaunay. Furthermore, that end is embedded if the Delaunay surface is unduloidal.


2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEDRO A. HINOJOSA

In this work we will deal with disc type surfaces of constant mean curvature in the three dimensional hyperbolic space which are given as graphs of smooth functions over planar domains. From the various types of graphs that could be defined in the hyperbolic space we consider in particular the horizontal and the geodesic graphs. We proved that if the mean curvature is constant, then such graphs are equivalent in the following sense: suppose that M is a constant mean curvature surface in the 3-hyperbolic space such that M is a geodesic graph of a function rho that is zero at the boundary, then there exist a smooth function f that also vanishes at the boundary, such that M is a horizontal graph of f. Moreover, the reciprocal is also true.


1987 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Eun Koh

We solve the question raised by Barbosa and do Carmo as to whether there exists a complete, noncompact stably immersed surface in R3 with nonzero constant mean curvature. We show that such a surface is necessarily minimal, that is, its mean curvature is zero.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 337-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL S. ODY ◽  
LEWIS H. RYDER

It is shown that time-independent solutions to the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear O(3) sigma model may be placed in correspondence with surfaces of constant mean curvature in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The tools required to establish this correspondence are provided by the classical differential geometry of surfaces. A constant-mean-curvature surface induces a solution to the O(3) model through the identification of the Gauss map, or normal vector, of the surface with the field vector of the sigma model. Some explicit solutions, including the solitons and antisolitons discovered by Belavin and Polyakov, and a more general solution due to Purkait and Ray, are considered and the surfaces giving rise to them are found explicitly. It is seen, for example, that the Belavin-Polyakov solutions are induced by the Gauss maps of surfaces which are conformal to their spherical images, i.e. spheres and minimal surfaces, and that the Purkait-Ray solution corresponds to the family of constant-mean-curvature helicoids first studied by do Carmo and Dajczer in 1982. A generalization of this method to include time dependence may shed new light on the role of the Hopf invariant in this model.


2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-371
Author(s):  
JUNCHEOL PYO ◽  
KEOMKYO SEO

AbstractFor a compact spacelike constant mean curvature surface with nonempty boundary in the three-dimensional Lorentz–Minkowski space, we introduce a rotation index of the lines of curvature at the boundary umbilical point, which was developed by Choe [‘Sufficient conditions for constant mean curvature surfaces to be round’, Math. Ann.323(1) (2002), 143–156]. Using the concept of the rotation index at the interior and boundary umbilical points and applying the Poincaré–Hopf index formula, we prove that a compact immersed spacelike disk type capillary surface with less than four vertices in a domain of $\Bbb L^3$ bounded by (spacelike or timelike) totally umbilical surfaces is part of a (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane. Moreover, we prove that the only immersed spacelike disk type capillary surface inside a de Sitter surface in $\Bbb L^3$ is part of (spacelike) plane or a hyperbolic plane.


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