Minimal surfaces in tori by Weyl groups
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Abstract:
We report a method of constructing compact minimal surfaces immersed in flat Riemannian tori of arbitrary dimension $n \geqslant 3$ by the use of the Weyl groups of compact simple Lie groups, inspired by H. A. Schwarz [5].References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1976 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (1976), 102-104
- MSC: Primary 53C40
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1976-0431047-3
- MathSciNet review: 0431047