Minimal Lagrangian Connections on Compact Surfaces

Thomas Mettler

Institut für Mathematik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Date: March 4, 2019

Published Version: Adv. Math. 354 (2019), Article ID 106747, 36 pp.

1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Minimal Lagrangian connections
1.3 Related work
2 Preliminaries
2.1 The coframe bundle
2.2 The orthonormal coframe bundle
2.3 The cotangent bundle and induced structures
3 Twisted Weyl connections
4 Submanifold theory of Lagrangian connections
4.1 Algebraic preliminaries
4.2 The mean curvature form
4.3 Minimality and the Liouville curvature
5 Minimal Lagrangian connections
6 The spherical case
7 The case of negative Euler-characteristic
7.1 Classification
7.2 Concluding remarks
References