TY - JOUR
T1 - Ruled Laguerre minimal surfaces
AU - Skopenkov, Mikhail
AU - Pottmann, Helmut
AU - Grohs, Philipp
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to S. Ivanov for useful discussions. M. Skopenkov was supported in part by Mobius Contest Foundation for Young Scientists and the Euler Foundation. H. Pottmann and P. Grohs are partly supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant S92.
PY - 2011/10/30
Y1 - 2011/10/30
N2 - A Laguerre minimal surface is an immersed surface in ℝ 3 being an extremal of the functional ∫ (H 2/K-1)dA. In the present paper, we prove that the only ruled Laguerre minimal surfaces are up to isometry the surfaces ℝ (φλ) = (Aφ, Bφ, Cφ + D cos 2φ) + λ(sin φ, cos φ, 0), where A,B,C,D ε ℝ are fixed. To achieve invariance under Laguerre transformations, we also derive all Laguerre minimal surfaces that are enveloped by a family of cones. The methodology is based on the isotropic model of Laguerre geometry. In this model a Laguerre minimal surface enveloped by a family of cones corresponds to a graph of a biharmonic function carrying a family of isotropic circles. We classify such functions by showing that the top view of the family of circles is a pencil. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
AB - A Laguerre minimal surface is an immersed surface in ℝ 3 being an extremal of the functional ∫ (H 2/K-1)dA. In the present paper, we prove that the only ruled Laguerre minimal surfaces are up to isometry the surfaces ℝ (φλ) = (Aφ, Bφ, Cφ + D cos 2φ) + λ(sin φ, cos φ, 0), where A,B,C,D ε ℝ are fixed. To achieve invariance under Laguerre transformations, we also derive all Laguerre minimal surfaces that are enveloped by a family of cones. The methodology is based on the isotropic model of Laguerre geometry. In this model a Laguerre minimal surface enveloped by a family of cones corresponds to a graph of a biharmonic function carrying a family of isotropic circles. We classify such functions by showing that the top view of the family of circles is a pencil. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561903
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00209-011-0953-0
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U2 - 10.1007/s00209-011-0953-0
DO - 10.1007/s00209-011-0953-0
M3 - Article
SN - 0025-5874
VL - 272
SP - 645
EP - 674
JO - Mathematische Zeitschrift
JF - Mathematische Zeitschrift
IS - 1-2
ER -