Yu Kawakami

Remarks on the Gauss images of complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean four-space

We perform a systematic study of the image of the Gauss map for complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean four-space. In particular, we give a geometric interpretation of the maximal number of exceptional values of the Gauss map of a complete orientable minimal surface in Euclidean four-space. We also provide optimal results for the maximal number of exceptional values of the Gauss map of a complete minimal Lagrangian surface in the complex two-space and the generalized Gauss map of a complete nonorientable minimal surface in Euclidean four-space.

Hyperbolic Metrics on Riemann Surfaces and Space-Like CMC-1 Surfaces in de Sitter 3-Space

We introduce a new notion called the extended hyperbolic metrics, as a hyperbolic metric (i.e. metric of constant curvature − 1) with certain kinds of singularities defined on a Riemann surface, and we give several fundamental properties of such metrics. Extended hyperbolic metrics are closely related to space-like surfaces of constant mean curvature one (i.e. CMC-1 surfaces) in de Sitter 3-space S 1 3. For example, the singular set of a given CMC-1 surface in S 1 3 is contained in the singular set of the associated extended hyperbolic metric. We then classify all catenoids in S 1 3 (i.e. weakly complete constant mean curvature 1 surfaces in S 1 3 of genus zero with two regular ends whose hyperbolic Gauss map is of degree one). Such surfaces are called S 1 3-catenoids. Since there is a bijection between the moduli space of S 1 3-catenoids and the moduli space of co-orientable extended hyperbolic metrics with two regular singularities, a classification of such hyperbolic metrics is also given. (Co-orientability of extended hyperbolic metrics is defined in this paper.)