Non-positively curved Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends

TL;DR

This paper classifies non-compact orientable Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends using Weierstrass data and provides an existence result for positive genus Ricci surfaces with such ends.

Contribution

It introduces a classification framework for Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends and establishes an existence theorem for positive genus cases.

Findings

Classification results for Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends

Existence of positive genus Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends

Use of Weierstrass data analogue for analysis

Abstract

A Ricci surface is defined as a Riemannian surface $(M,g_M)$ whose Gauss curvature satisfies the differential equation $K\Delta K + g_M(dK,dK) + 4K^3=0$. Andrei Moroianu and Sergiu Moroianu proved that a Ricci surface with non-positive Gauss curvature admits locally a minimal immersion into $\mathbb{R}^3$. In this paper, we are interested in studying non-compact orientable Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends. We use an analogue of the Weierstrass data to obtain some classification results for such Ricci surfaces. We also give an existence result for positive genus Ricci surfaces with catenoidal ends.