Flat point conjecture for complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean three-space
Flat point conjecture for complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean three-space
Let be a nonflat complete minimal surface in , 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 has at least one flat point, then its Gauss map omits at most 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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