Rotational symmetry conjecture for free boundary minimal annuli in rescaled spherical caps
Rotational symmetry conjecture for free boundary minimal annuli in rescaled spherical caps
Let and let be the space form of curvature . An embedded free boundary minimal annulus in is an embedded minimal annulus whose boundary lies on and meets it orthogonally. The rotational symmetry conjecture. If
is an embedded free boundary minimal annulus, then is rotationally symmetric. This is a natural analogue of the Lawson and Nitsche–Fraser–Li uniqueness conjectures. The statement is presented as an open rigidity problem; no resolution is supplied in the source.
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Keaton Naff and Jonathan J. Zhu, “Free boundary and capillary minimal surfaces in spherical caps I: Low genus”, arXiv:2512.12877 (2025).
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