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In this article, we study the ramification of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in ${ℝ}^3$ and ${ℝ}^4$ on annular ends. We obtain results which are similar to the ones obtained by Fujimoto ([4], [5]) and Ru ([13], [14]) for (the whole) complete minimal surfaces, thus we show that the restriction of the Gauss map to an annular end of such a complete minimal surface cannot have more branching (and in particular not avoid more values) than on the whole complete minimal surface. We thus give an improvement...

We study the ramification of the Gauss map of complete minimal surfaces in ${ℝ}^m$ on annular ends. This is a continuation of previous work of Dethloff-Ha (2014), which we extend here to targets of higher dimension.

Let $T$ be a tree. Then a vertex of $T$ with degree one is a leaf of $T$ and a vertex of degree at least three is a branch vertex of $T$. The set of leaves of $T$ is denoted by $L\left(T\right)$ and the set of branch vertices of $T$ is denoted by $B\left(T\right)$. For two distinct vertices $u$, $v$ of $T$, let $P_T[u,v]$ denote the unique path in $T$ connecting $u$ and $v.$ Let $T$ be a tree with $B\left(T\right)\ne \varnothing$. For each leaf $x$ of $T$, let $y_x$ denote the nearest branch vertex to $x$. We delete $V\left(P_T[x,y_x]\right)\setminus \left\{y_x\right\}$ from $T$ for all $x\in L\left(T\right)$. The resulting subtree of $T$ is called the reducible stem of $T$ and denoted...