Extrinsic isoperimetry and compactification of minimal surfaces in Euclidean and Hyperbolic spaces

Abstract

We study the topology of (properly) immersed complete minimal surfaces $P^2$ in Hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces which have finite total extrinsic curvature, using some isoperimetric inequalities satisfied by the extrinsic balls in these surfaces, (see \cite{Pa}). We present an alternative and partially unified proof of the Chern-Osserman inequality satisfied by these minimal surfaces, (in $\erre^n$ and in $\Han$), based in the isoperimetric analysis above alluded. Finally, we show a Chern-Osserman type equality attained by complete minimal surfaces in the Hyperbolic space with finite total extrinsic curvature.