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Lectures on Minimal Surfaces in R3

Volume 35 in the Proceedings of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications

Lectures on Minimal Surfaces in R3

Yi Fang
April 26, 1996

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Definition of Minimal Surfaces
4
3 The First Variation
9
4 The Minimal Surface Equation
14
5 Isothermal Coordinates for Minimal Surfaces
19
6 The Enneper-Weierstrass Representation
21
7 The Geometry of the Enneper-Weierstrass Representation
24
8 Some Applications of the Enneper-Weierstrass Representation
29
9 Conformal Types of Riemann Surfaces
32
10 Complete Minimal Surfaces, Osserman's Theorem
37
11 Ends of Complete Minimal Surfaces
44
12 Complete Minimal Surfaces of Finite Total Curvature
51
13 Total Curvature of Branched Complete Minimal Surfaces
56
14 Examples of Complete Minimal Surfaces
61
15 The Halfspace Theorem and The Maximum Principle at Infinity
75
16 The Convex Hull of a Minimal Surface
78
17 Flux
81
18 Uniqueness of the Catenoid
87
19 The Gauss Map of Complete Minimal Surfaces
91
20 The Second Variation and Stability
93
21 The Cone Lemma
98
22 Standard Barriers and The Annular End Theorem
103
23 Annular Ends Lying above Catenoid Ends
107
24 Complete Minimal Surfaces of Finite Topology
113
25 Minimal Annuli
116
26 Isoperimetric Inequalities for Minimal Surfaces
126
27 Minimal Annuli in a Slab
131
28 The Existence of Minimal Annuli in a Slab
137
29 Shiffman's Theorems
143
30 A Generalisation of Shiffman's Second Theorem
149
31 Nitsche's Conjecture
159
32 Appendix The Eigenvalue Problem
165