Minimal surfaces with low index in the three-dimensional sphere

Urbano, Francisco

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1990-1007516-1

Minimal surfaces with low index in the three-dimensional sphere
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 108 (1990), 989-992 Request permission

Abstract:

In the present paper, the author gives a characterization of the Clifford torus among the minimal surfaces of the three-dimensional sphere in terms of its index.

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