Flat point conjecture for complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean three-space

Let XX be a nonflat complete minimal surface in R3\mathbf{R}^3, and let its Gauss map be the map assigning to each point the corresponding unit normal direction. A flat point is a point at which the Gaussian curvature vanishes.

Flat point conjecture. If XX has at least one flat point, then its Gauss map omits at most 33 values.

This conjecture concerns the value-distribution theory of Gauss maps of complete minimal surfaces. The supplied text does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Yu Kawakami and Mototsugu Watanabe, “The Gauss images of complete minimal surfaces of genus zero of finite total curvature”, arXiv:2309.06846 (2024).

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