Laguerre minimal surfaces in ℝ3

Laguerre geometry of surfaces in R^3 is given in the book of Blaschke, and has been studied by Musso and Nicolodi, Palmer, Li and Wang and other authors. In this paper we study Laguerre minimal surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space R^3. We show that any Laguerre minimal surface in R^3 can be constructed by using at most two holomorphic functions. We show also that any Laguerre minimal surface in R^3 with constant Laguerre curvature is Laguerre equivalent to a surface with vanishing mean curvature in the 3-dimensional degenerate space R0^3.     

Classification of Wintgen ideal surfaces in Euclidean 4-space with equal Gauss and normal curvatures

Wintgen proved (C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 288:993–995, 1979) that the Gauss curvature K and the normal curvature K ^D of a surface in Euclidean 4-space \mathbb E⁴{\mathbb {E}^4} satisfy K + |K ^D | ≤ H ², where H ² is the squared mean curvature. A surface in \mathbb E⁴{\mathbb {E}^4} is called Wintgen ideal if it satisfies the equality case of the inequality identically. Wintgen ideal surfaces in \mathbb E⁴{\mathbb {E}^4} form an important family of surfaces, namely, surfaces with circular ellipse of curvature. In this article, we completely classify Wintgen ideal surfaces in \mathbb E⁴{\mathbb E^4} satisfying |K| = |K ^D | identically.     

Weierstrass Type Representation of Willmore Surfaces in <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

In this paper, we reformulate the Euler-Lagrange equations of Willmore surfaces in S^n as the flatness of a family of certain loop algebra-valued 1-forms. Therefore we can give the Weierstrass type representation of conformal Willmore surfaces. We also discuss the relations between conformal Willmore surfaces in S^n and minimal surfaces in constant curvature spaces S^n, R^n, H^n, and prove that some special Willmore surfaces can be derived from minimal surfaces in S^n, R^n, H^n.     

Special Weingarten surfaces foliated by circles

In this paper we study surfaces in Euclidean 3-space foliated by pieces of circles that satisfy a Weingarten condition of type aH + bK = c, where a,b and c are constant, and H and K denote the mean curvature and the Gauss curvature respectively. We prove that such a surface must be a surface of revolution, one of the Riemann minimal examples, or a generalized cone. Authors’ address: Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain     

Laguerre isothermic surfaces in ℝ3 and their Darboux transformation

In this paper,we study Laguerre isothermic surfaces in R3.We show that the Darboux transformation of a Laguerre isothermic surface x produces a new Laguerre isothermic surface x and their respective Laguerre Gauss maps form a Darboux pair of each other at the corresponding point.We also classify the surfaces which are both Laguerre isothermic and Laguerre minimal and show that they must be Laguerre equivalent to surfaces with vanishing mean curvature in R3,R13 or R03.     

Complete hypersurfaces with constant laguerre scalar curvature in ℝ<Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

Let x: M ^n?1 → R ⁿ be an umbilical free hypersurface with non-zero principal curvatures. Two basic invariants of M under the Laguerre transformation group of R ⁿ are Laguerre form C and Laguerre tensor L. In this paper, n > 3) complete hypersurface with vanishing Laguerre form and with constant Laguerre scalar curvature R in R ⁿ , denote the trace-free Laguerre tensor by ?\(\widetilde L = L - \frac{1}{{n - 1}}tr\left( L \right)\) · Id. If \(\widetilde L = L - \frac{1}{{n - 1}}tr\left( L \right)\), then M is Laguerre equivalent to a Laguerre isotropic hypersurface; and if \({\sup _M}\left\| {\widetilde L} \right\| = \frac{{\sqrt {\left( {n - 1} \right)\left( {n - 2} \right)} R}}{{\left( {n - 1} \right)\left( {n - 2} \right)\left( {n - 3} \right)}},\), M is Laguerre equivalent to the hypersurface ?x: H ¹ × S ^n?2 → R ⁿ .     

The minimizing of the Nielsen root classes

Given a map f: X→Y and a Nielsen root class, there is a number associated to this root class, which is the minimal number of points among all root classes which are H-related to the given one for all homotopies H of the map f. We show that for maps between closed surfaces it is possible to deform f such that all the Nielsen root classes have cardinality equal to the minimal number if and only if either N R[f]≤1, or N R[f]>1 and f satisfies the Wecken property. Here N R[f] denotes the Nielsen root number. The condition “f satisfies the Wecken property is known to be equivalent to |deg(f)|≤N R[f]/(1−χ(M ₂)−χ(M ₁0/(1−χ(M ₂)) for maps between closed orientable surfaces. In the case of nonorientable surfaces the condition is A(f)≤N R[f]/(1−χ(M ₂)−χ(M ₂)/(1−χ(M ₂)). Also we construct, for each integer n≥3, an example of a map f: K _n →N from an n-dimensionally connected complex of dimension n to an n-dimensional manifold such that we cannot deform f in a way that all the Nielsen root classes reach the minimal number of points at the same time.     

Extensions of the duality between minimal surfaces and maximal surfaces

As a generalization of the classical duality between minimal graphs in E ³ and maximal graphs in L ³, we construct the duality between graphs of constant mean curvature H in Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu space E ³(κ, τ) and spacelike graphs of constant mean curvature τ in Lorentzian Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu space L ³(κ, H).     

Rotational linear Weingarten surfaces of hyperbolic type

A linear Weingarten surface in Euclidean space ℝ³ is a surface whose mean curvature H and Gaussian curvature K satisfy a relation of the form aH + bK = c, where a, b, c ∈ ℝ. Such a surface is said to be hyperbolic when a ² + 4bc < 0. In this paper we study rotational linear Weingarten surfaces of hyperbolic type giving a classification under suitable hypothesis. As a consequence, we obtain a family of complete hyperbolic linear Weingarten surfaces in ℝ³ that consists of surfaces with self-intersections whose generating curves are periodic. Partially supported by MEC-FEDER grant no. MTM2007-61775.     

Transferring Boundedness from Conjugate Operators Associated with Jacobi, Laguerre, and Fourier–Bessel Expansions to Conjugate Operators in the Hankel Setting

In this paper we establish transference results showing that the boundedness of the conjugate operator associated with Hankel transforms on Lorentz spaces can be deduced from the corresponding boundedness of the conjugate operators defined on Laguerre, Jacobi, and Fourier–Bessel settings. Our result also allows us to characterize the power weights in order that conjugation associated with Laguerre, Jacobi, and Fourier–Bessel expansions define bounded operators between the corresponding weighted L ^p spaces. This paper is partially supported by MTM2004/05878. Third and fourth authors are also partially supported by grant PI042004/067.     

Conformal minimal two-spheres in Q 2

In this paper, we consider a conformal minimal immersion f from S ₂ into a hyperquadric Q ₂, and prove that its Gaussian curvature K and normal curvature K ^⊥ satisfy K + K ^⊥ = 4. We also show that the ellipse of curvature is a circle.     

On multiply of sections of line bundles on compact Riemann surfaces

In this paper,we give some conditions on the surjective of multiply maps H~0(R,L)×H~0(R,K)→H~0(R,L(?)K).Here R is a compact Riemann surface,L a line bundle on R and K is the canonical line bundle.     

Singular sets of convex bodies and surfaces with generalized curvatures

In this paper we consider generalized surfaces with curvature measures and we study the properties of those k-dimensional subsets Σ ^k of such surfaces where the curvatures have positive density with respect to k-dimensional Hausdorff measure. Special attention is given to boundaries of convex bodies inR ³. We introduce a class of convex sets whose curvatures live only on integer dimension sets. For such convex sets we consider integral functionals depending on the curvature and the area ofK and on the curvature andH ^k of Σ ^k .     

Laguerre expansion on the Heisenberg group and Fourier-Bessel transform on ?n

Given a principal value convolution on the Heisenberg group H _n = ℂ ⁿ × ℝ, we study the relation between its Laguerre expansion and the Fourier-Bessel expansion of its limit on ℂ ⁿ . We also calculate the Dirichlet kernel for the Laguerre expansion on the group H _n . Dedicated to Professor Sheng GONG on the occasion of his 75th birthday     

A halfspace theorem for proper,negatively curved immersions

Generalizing the classical halfspace theorem for minimal surfaces (Hoffman and Meeks in Invent Math 101:373–377, 1990), we prove such a result for two-dimensional surfaces in \mathbbR³{\mathbb{R}^3} of negative Gaussian curvature. Instead of requiring an elliptic differential equation, we merely assume some inequality involving the principal curvatures of the surface to be satisfied, see assumption (1). Surfaces of this type arise naturally as critical points of weighted area functionals defined in (2).     

The Minding formula and its applications

We apply the Minding Formula for geodesic curvature and the Gauss-Bonnet Formula to calculate the total Gaussian curvature of certain 2-dimensional open complete branched Riemannian manifolds, the M\cal M surfaces. We prove that for an M\cal M surface, the total curvature depends only on its Euler characteristic and the local behaviour of its metric at ends and branch points. Then we check that many important surfaces, such as complete minimal surfaces in \Bbb Rⁿ{\Bbb R}^n with finite total curvature, complete constant mean curvature surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space H³ (–1) with finite total curvature, are actually branch point free M\cal M surfaces. Therefore as corollaries we give simple proofs of some classical theorems such as the Chern-Osserman theorem for complete minimal surfaces in \Bbb Rⁿ{\Bbb R}^n with finite total curvature. For the reader's convenience, we also derive the Minding Formula.     

Characterizations and Extensions of Lipschitz-α Operators

In this work, we prove that a map F from a compact metric space K into a Banach space X over F is a Lipschitz-α operator if and only if for each σ in X^＊ the map σoF is a Lipschitz-α function on K. In the case that K = [a, b], we show that a map f from [a, b] into X is a Lipschitz-1 operator if and only if it is absolutely continuous and the map σ→ （σ o f）＇ is a bounded linear operator from X^＊ into L^∞（[a, b]）. When K is a compact subset of a finite interval （a, b） and 0 〈 α ≤ 1, we show that every Lipschitz-α operator f from K into X can be extended as a Lipschitz-α operator F from [a, b] into X with Lα（f） ≤ Lα（F） ≤ 3^1-α Lα（f）. A similar extension theorem for a little Lipschitz-α operator is also obtained.     

Half-space type theorems in warped product spaces with one-dimensional factor

This work states some half-space type theorems in a warped product space of the form I ×_ρ M, where is an open interval and M is either a compact n-manifold, or a complete simply connected surface with constant curvature c ≤ 0. Such theorems generalize the classical half-space theorem for minimal surfaces in R ³, obtained by Hoffmann and Meeks (Invent Math 101:373–377, 1990), and recent results for surfaces contained in a slab of R ×_ρ M, obtained by Dajczer and Alías (Comment Math Helvetici 81:653–663, 2006).