Horgan Surface (non-existent, near-miss)
Horgan Surface (non-existent, near-miss) is a minimal surface, given by a Weierstrass representation, immersed.
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aperiodic def-weierstrass immersed implemented minimal tradition-classical
Properties
- Family
- minimal
- Given by
- a Weierstrass representation
- Curvature
- zero mean curvature
- Periodicity
- not periodic
- Ends
- 0
- Embedding
- immersed
- Fidelity
- exact
- Exactness
- numerical-integral
Definition
No (g, dh) pair is stored: the shipped row is built by the dedicated mesher we.horgan_mesh (a torus/branched-cover or multi-patch assembly); no elementary (g, dh) pair on a plane domain is stored in the code. The shipped implementation is authoritative; an unverified transcription would silently define a different surface.
Sources
Derived from the Math Art generator registries and cross-referenced to the literature; not transcribed from any gallery's compilation.
- B. Riemann (1867) and F. J. Lopez, A. Ros, J. Differential Geom. 33 (1991) for the (never embedded) finite Riemann family; the symmetrized member follows M. Weber, minimalsurfaces.blog, "Symmetrized Finite Riemann".
- H. Karcher, "Construction of minimal surfaces" (1989) for the symmetrization method (double Enneper, k-noid families);
- L. P. Jorge, W. H. Meeks III, Topology 22 (1983) for the k-noids; data after M. Weber, minimalsurfaces.blog ("Symmetrized Double Enneper", "k-Noids with Enneper Ends", "Antiprismatic k-Noids").
- L. Henneberg (1875); R. Kusner, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987) 291-295; F. J. Lopez, Duke Math. J. 71 (1993) 23-30 -- full citations in the weierstrass symtail engine block.