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Embedded minimal disks with prescribed curvature blowup

Author(s): Brian Dean
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 1197-1204.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C42; Secondary 53A10, 57R40
Posted: July 20, 2005
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Abstract: We construct a sequence of compact embedded minimal disks in a ball in $\mathbb{R} ^3$, whose boundaries lie in the boundary of the ball, such that the curvature blows up only at a prescribed discrete (and hence, finite) set of points on the $x_3$-axis. This extends a result of Colding and Minicozzi, who constructed a sequence for which the curvature blows up only at the center of the ball, and is a partial affirmative answer to the larger question of the existence of a sequence for which the curvature blows up precisely on a prescribed closed set on the $x_3$-axis.


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T.H. Colding and W.P. Minicozzi II, Embedded minimal disks: proper versus nonproper--global versus local, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 356, (2003), 283-289. MR 2020033 (2004k:53011)

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T.H. Colding and W.P. Minicozzi II, The space of embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a 3-manifold IV; Locally simply connected, preprint, math.AP/0210119.

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W. Meeks and M. Weber, in preparation.

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R. Osserman, A survey of minimal surfaces, Dover, 2nd ed., (1986). MR 0852409 (87j:53012)


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Additional Information:

Brian Dean
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Hylan Building, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
Email: bdean@math.rochester.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08045-7
PII: S 0002-9939(05)08045-7
Received by editor(s): August 10, 2004
Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 26, 2004
Posted: July 20, 2005
Additional Notes: The author thanks W. Minicozzi for his many helpful discussions.
Communicated by: Richard A. Wentworth
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


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