Constant mean curvature tori with spherical curvature lines in noneuclidean geometry

Abstract

A previous result in Euclidean geometry [7] on H-tori with plane and spherical curvature lines is extended here to the two noneuclidean geometries. There result families of H-tori with only spherical curvature lines, which are explicitly representable by elliptic and theta functions (or ordinary integrals of elementary functions). Among the geometric properties, it is shown that the midpoints of the generating spheres vary on geodesics. The hyperbolic case is more similar to the Euclidean situation than the elliptic one. In elliptic geometry the constructed surfaces depend on one additional rational parameter and, as a limiting case, there are even countably many minimal tori of this type.