TY - JOUR
T1 - Minimal Lagrangian surfaces in CH^2 and representations of surface groups into SU(2,1)
AU - McIntosh, Ian
AU - Loftin, John
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - We use an elliptic differential equation of Tzitzeica type to construct a minimal Lagrangian surface in the complex hyperbolic plane CH^2 from the data of a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface and a small holomorphic cubic differential. The minimal Lagrangian surface is invariant under an SU(2,1) action of the fundamental group. We further parameterise a neighborhood of the R-Fuchsian representations in the representation space by pairs consisting of a point in Teichmuller space and a small cubic differential. By constructing a fundamental domain, we show these representations are complex-hyperbolic quasi-Fuchsian, thus recovering a result of Guichard and Parker-Platis. Our proof involves using the Toda lattice framework to construct an SU(2,1) frame corresponding to a minimal Lagrangian surface. Then the equation of Tzitzeica type is an integrability condition. A very similar equation to ours governs minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space, and our paper can be interpreted as an analog of the theory of minimal surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian manifolds, as first studied by Uhlenbeck.
AB - We use an elliptic differential equation of Tzitzeica type to construct a minimal Lagrangian surface in the complex hyperbolic plane CH^2 from the data of a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface and a small holomorphic cubic differential. The minimal Lagrangian surface is invariant under an SU(2,1) action of the fundamental group. We further parameterise a neighborhood of the R-Fuchsian representations in the representation space by pairs consisting of a point in Teichmuller space and a small cubic differential. By constructing a fundamental domain, we show these representations are complex-hyperbolic quasi-Fuchsian, thus recovering a result of Guichard and Parker-Platis. Our proof involves using the Toda lattice framework to construct an SU(2,1) frame corresponding to a minimal Lagrangian surface. Then the equation of Tzitzeica type is an integrability condition. A very similar equation to ours governs minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space, and our paper can be interpreted as an analog of the theory of minimal surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian manifolds, as first studied by Uhlenbeck.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10711-012-9717-1
DO - 10.1007/s10711-012-9717-1
M3 - Article
SN - 1572-9168
VL - 162
SP - 67
EP - 93
JO - Geometriae Dedicata
JF - Geometriae Dedicata
IS - 1
ER -