Uniqueness and non-uniqueness for the asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space
Abstract
We prove several results on the number of solutions to the asymptotic Plateau problem in $\mathbb H^3$. Firstly we discuss criteria that ensure uniqueness. Given a Jordan curve $\Lambda$ in the asymptotic boundary of $\mathbb H^3$, we show that uniqueness of the minimal surfaces with asymptotic boundary $\Lambda$ is equivalent to uniqueness in the smaller class of stable minimal disks. Then we show that if a quasicircle (or more generally, a Jordan curve of finite width) $\Lambda$ is the asymptotic boundary of a minimal surface $\Sigma$ with principal curvatures less than or equal to 1 in absolute value, then uniqueness holds. In the direction of non-uniqueness, we construct an example of a quasicircle that is the asymptotic boundary of uncountably many pairwise distinct stable minimal disks.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2309.00599
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230900599H
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- 53C42;
- 57K32
- E-Print:
- Revised version, large parts of the paper have been rewritten, arguments simplified and improved, details added, main results unchanged