Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4614255 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 2016 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

The minimal surfaces in Finsler geometry with respect to the Busemann–Hausdorff measure and the Holmes–Thompson measure are called BH-minimal and HT-minimal surfaces, respectively. Let (p1,p2,p3,p4)(p1,p2,p3,p4) be the coordinates of R4R4 and (S3,F˜) be a Randers sphere of flag curvature K=1K=1 with the navigation data (h˜,W˜), where h˜ is the standard sphere metric and W˜=ε(0,0,−p4,p3), 0<ε<10<ε<1, is a Killing vector field. In this paper, we study the rotationally invariant minimal surface in (S3,F˜) generated by rotating the curve (x(s),y(s),z(s),0)(x(s),y(s),z(s),0) in the upper half sphere of S2S2 around the p1p2p1p2-plane, s∈Rs∈R. We first show that such a rotational BH-minimal surface in (S3,F˜) is either a great 2-sphere or the catenoid in (S3,h˜). Then we give a classification of the rotational HT-minimal surfaces, where we use the angle data to analyze the solutions of the system of ODE that characterizes the HT-minimality and prove that, such a rotational HT-minimal surface must be a great 2-sphere, an HT-minimal torus, or a rotational surface of unduloid type. As a special case, we obtain a distinguished embedded compact HT-minimal torus depending on ε. The completeness of these surfaces is also studied.

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