A Family of Singly Periodic Minimal Surfaces Invariant under a Screw Motion

DOI10.1080/10586458.1993.10504276zbMath0807.53004OpenAlexW2085608050MaRDI QIDQ4296148

Hermann Karcher, Michael Callahan, David A. Hoffman

Publication date: 15 June 1994

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.em/1062620829

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic functionsreflection symmetryWeierstrass representationperiod problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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