Conjecture on the space of Alexandrov embedded Lawson symmetric CMC surfaces
Conjecture on the space of Alexandrov embedded Lawson symmetric CMC surfaces
A Lawson symmetric CMC surface is a compact constant-mean-curvature surface in of genus with a cyclic symmetry of order having four fixed points. For each pair of integers and , let denote the known Lawson symmetric families, which also have the symmetry induced by the hyperelliptic involution, and let denote the conjectured additional one-parameter families of Alexandrov embedded Lawson symmetric surfaces lacking that symmetry. Lawson symmetric surface space conjecture. The space of Alexandrov embedded Lawson symmetric constant-mean-curvature surfaces consists of the families and . The conjecture asserts that the generalized Whitham flow from the -lobed Delaunay tori reaches the families , which converge to a chain of constant-mean-curvature spheres. The completeness of this description would classify the Alexandrov embedded Lawson symmetric CMC surfaces beyond the currently known families; the supplied text gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.
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Lynn Heller, Sebastian Heller and Nicholas Schmitt, “Exploring the space of compact symmetric CMC surfaces”, arXiv:1503.07838 (2017).
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