Minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces by way of complex analysis

  • Franc Forstnerič

    University of Ljubljana; and Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Abstract

This is an expanded version of my plenary lecture at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics in Portorož on 23 June 2021. The main part of the paper is a survey of recent applications of complex-analytic techniques to the theory of conformal minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces. New results concern approximation, interpolation, and general position properties of minimal surfaces, existence of minimal surfaces with a given Gauss map, and the Calabi–Yau problem for minimal surfaces. To be accessible to a wide audience, the article includes a self-contained elementary introduction to the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces.