Minimal isometric immersions into S2 x R and H2 x R
Abstract
For a given simply connected Riemannian surface Sigma, we relate the problem of finding minimal isometric immersions of Sigma into S2 x R or H2 x R to a system of two partial differential equations on Sigma. We prove that a constant intrinsic curvature minimal surface in S2 x R or H2 x R is either totally geodesic or part of an associate surface of a certain limit of catenoids in H2 x R. We also prove that if a non constant curvature Riemannian surface admits a continuous one-parameter family of minimal isometric immersions into S2 x R or H2 x R, then all these immersions are associate.
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