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We discuss in detail Alan Schoen’s I-WP surface, an embedded triply periodic minimal surface of genus 4 with cubical symmetries. We exhibit various geometric realizations of this surface with the same conformal structure and use them to prove that the associate family of the I-WP surface contains six surfaces congruent to I-WP at Bonnet angles that are multiples of \(60^\circ \).
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Lee, D., Weber, M. & Yerger, A.T. On Alan Schoen’s I-WP minimal surface. Ann Glob Anal Geom 65, 21 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-024-09951-2
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