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Unpublished Paper
Coplanar k-Unduloids Are Nondegenerate
International Mathematics Research Notices (2009)
  • Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann
  • Nicholas J. Korevaar
  • Robert Kusner, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Jesse Ratzkin
  • John M. Sullivan
Abstract

We prove each embedded, constant mean curvature (CMC) surface in Euclidean space with genus zero and finitely many coplanar ends is nondegenerate: there is no nontrivial square-integrable solution to the Jacobi equation, the linearization of the CMC condition. This implies that the moduli space of such coplanar surfaces is a real-analytic manifold and that a neighborhood of these in the full CMC moduli space is itself a manifold. Nondegeneracy further implies (infinitesimal and local) rigidity in the sense that the asymptotes map is an analytic immersion on these spaces, and also that the coplanar classifying map is an analytic diffeomorphism.

Publication Date
June 5, 2009
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Published by Oxford University Press.
Citation Information
Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann, Nicholas J. Korevaar, Robert Kusner, Jesse Ratzkin, et al.. "Coplanar k-Unduloids Are Nondegenerate" International Mathematics Research Notices (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_kusner/3/