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Joaquín Pérez

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Frobenius conjugation and Jacobi functions for minimal immersions in $\mathbb{S}^3$ and CMC $1$ immersions in $\mathbb{R}^3$

We give a first-order Frobenius description of conjugate minimal immersions in the round three-sphere and use it to define the conjugate of an arbitrary Jacobi function. The construction is intrinsic at the linearized level and does not require the Jacobi function to be integrable through a normal deformation by minimal surfaces. We then describe how the boundary conditions are exchanged under conjugation. Along a great-circle boundary arc, a Dirichlet Jacobi function has, after a suitable ambient gauge, a conjugate Jacobi function with vanishing Neumann data. Conversely, along a reflection curve, vanishing Neumann data yield vanishing Dirichlet data for the conjugate modulo a Jacobi--Killing function. We also construct conjugate Jacobi functions for conjugate CMC~$1$ immersions in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and exhibit cylindrical counterexamples to both pure boundary exchanges, even modulo ambient Killing fields.

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Genus two embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{S}^3$ with dihedral symmetry

We prove that the Lawson surface $ξ_{2,1}$ is the unique closed embedded minimal surface of genus $2$ in $\mathbb{S}^3$ whose isometry group contains the dihedral group $D_4$ generated by two reflections across orthogonal totally geodesic two-spheres and a half-turn about a great circle. This weakens the full-symmetry hypotheses in previous characterizations of Lawson surfaces and leads to a substantially different geometric problem.

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Minimal Surfaces of Finite Genus: Classification, Dynamics and Laminations

This article explains a program to study complete and properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ developed jointly with W.H. Meeks and A. Ros in the last three decades. It follows closely the structure of my invited ICM talk with the same title and supplies details and references to the original papers. After recalling the role of the classical Riemann minimal examples in minimal surface theory, we explain our four-step classification of properly embedded minimal surfaces of genus zero and infinite topology in $\mathbb{R}^3$: the periodic case, the quasi-periodicity of the two-limit-ended case, the non-existence of one-limit-ended examples, and the final classification. We then review the lamination techniques (limit-leaf stability, local removable singularity, and singular structure theorems), the dynamics theorem, bounds on topology and index for complete embedded minimal surfaces of finite total curvature, and the resolution of the embedded Calabi-Yau problem for finite genus and countably many ends. Throughout we emphasize the interaction between topology, flux, curvature estimates, and the structure of related moduli spaces. We end this article with a list of some open problems.

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Generalized Henneberg stable minimal surfaces

We generalize the classical Henneberg minimal surface by giving an infinite family of complete, finitely branched, non-orientable, stable minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. These surfaces can be grouped into subfamilies depending on a positive integer (called the complexity), which essentially measures the number of branch points. The classical Henneberg surface $H_1$ is characterized as the unique example in the subfamily of the simplest complexity $m=1$, while for $m\geq 2$ multiparameter families are given. The isometry group of the most symmetric example $H_m$ with a given complexity $m\in \mathbb{N}$ is either isomorphic to the dihedral isometry group $D_{2m+2}$ (if $m$ is odd) or to $D_{m+1}\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ (if $m$ is even). Furthermore, for $m$ even $H_m$ is the unique solution to the Björling problem for a hypocycloid of $m+1$ cusps (if $m$ is even), while for $m$ odd the conjugate minimal surface $H_m^*$ to $H_m$ is the unique solution to the Björling problem for a hypocycloid of $2m+2$ cusps.

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Embeddedness of spheres in homogeneous three-manifolds

Let $X$ denote a metric Lie group diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^3$ that admits an algebraic open book decomposition. In this paper we prove that if $Σ$ is an immersed surface in $X$ whose left invariant Gauss map is a diffeomorphism onto $\mathbb{S}^2$, then $Σ$ is an embedded sphere. As a consequence, we deduce that any constant mean curvature sphere of index one in $X$ is embedded.

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The Dynamics Theorem for properly embedded minimal surfaces

In this paper we prove two theorems. The first one is a structure result that describes the extrinsic geometry of an embedded surface with constant mean curvature (possibly zero) in a homogeneously regular Riemannian three-manifold, in any small neighborhood of a point of large almost-maximal curvature. We next apply this theorem and the Quadratic Curvature Decay Theorem (previously proven by the same authors in [14]) to deduce compactness, descriptive and dynamics-type results concerning the space $D(M)$ of non-flat limits under dilations of any given properly embedded minimal surface $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$.

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