The associated family of an elliptic surface and an application to minimal submanifolds

It is well-known that in any codimension a simply connected Euclidean minimal surface has an associated one-parameter family of minimal isometric deformations. In this paper, we show that this is just a special case of the associated family to any simply connected elliptic surface for which all curv...

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Published in:Geometriae dedicata 2015-10, Vol.178 (1), p.259-275
Main Authors: Dajczer, Marcos, Vlachos, Theodoros
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algebraic Geometry
Convex and Discrete Geometry
Differential Geometry
Hyperbolic Geometry
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Original Paper
Projective Geometry
Topology
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Summary:It is well-known that in any codimension a simply connected Euclidean minimal surface has an associated one-parameter family of minimal isometric deformations. In this paper, we show that this is just a special case of the associated family to any simply connected elliptic surface for which all curvature ellipses of a certain order are circles. We also provide the conditions under which this associated family is trivial, extending the known result for minimal surfaces. As an application, we show how the associated family of a minimal Euclidean submanifold of rank two is determined by the associated family of an elliptic surface clarifying the geometry around the associated family of these higher dimensional submanifolds.
ISSN:0046-5755
1572-9168
DOI:10.1007/s10711-015-0056-x