The Geometry and Dynamics of Spiral Minimal Products

Abstract

We study the spiral product $G_γ(t,x,y)=(z_1(t)f_1(x),z_2(t)f_2(y))$, which couples two spherical $\mathscr C$-totally real immersed factors through a profile curve $γ=(z_1,z_2)\subset\mathbb S^3$. Its minimality is governed by a weighted-geodesic system: $G_γ$ is minimal precisely when both factors are minimal and $γ$ is an unparametrized geodesic of $|z_1|^{2k_1}|z_2|^{2k_2}g_{\mathbb S^3}$. This flow is Liouville integrable and, when $k_1+k_2>0$, its phase map has an open dense full-rank locus. Consequently, closed profiles of arbitrarily large primitive order occur densely. For compact minimal factors, Routh reduction and Sturm oscillation give $\text{Ind}(G_γ)\geq \text{Ind}(f_1)+\text{Ind}(f_2)+2m_γ-3$ for a closed oscillatory profile of primitive closing order $m_γ$. On the contact level, a factor-adapted choice of profiles produces, from any prescribed pair of compact connected embedded special Legendrians, embedded special Legendrian products of every sufficiently large prime closing order. Finally, canonical finite horizontal lifts and Hopf projection give Delaunay-type minimal Lagrangians in complex projective spaces. For compact embedded inputs and ordinarily closed profiles, the primitive spherical quotient is embedded, while its projective quotient is embedded exactly when the reduced relative winding is one.