On the complete maximal maps and their singularities

Abstract

This article investigates the global structure of maximal surfaces (space-like immersions with zero mean curvature) in Lorentz-Minkowski $3$-space ${\mathbb{E}}_1^3$, especially focusing on the interplay between genus, the number of singular components--loci, and simple ends. We construct complete maximal maps with arbitrarily many singular components for any genus $p\ge 0$ with simple ends.

Final version, to appear in Comptes Rendus Mathématique