2019/06/21 by Nícolas Alcântara de Andrade, de Andrade, Nícolas A., Luquésio P. Jorge +1
Mathematics · #53A10 #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Mathematics and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.09111
openalex publication_date 2019/06/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Surfaces of finite geometric type are complete, immersed into the tree-dimensional Euclidean space with finite total curvature and Gauss map extending to an oriented compact surface as a smooth branched covering map over the unit sphere of the Euclidean three dimensional space. In a recent preprint J. Jorge and F. Mercuri gave a geometric proof that the Gauss map can not omit three or more points if the immersion is minimal and no flat. Here we give a topological proof of this result in the class of no flat finite geometric type surfaces and also give a topological classification when the Gauss map is a regular covering map. This facts are easy applications of our main result, a generalization of the little Picard theorem for the class of branched covering of a finite geometric type surface into the unit sphere of the tree dimensional Euclidean space. A finite geometric type surface given by a compact surface minus a finite set of points has the following property: any branched covering from the 0surface to the unit Euclidean sphere having a C extension to the compact surfaces can miss at most 2 points. This is a generalization of the little Picard theorem to the class of finite geometric type surfaces.