Properly embedded, area-minimizing surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space

Abstract

We prove a bridge principle at infinity for area-minimizing surfaces in the hyperbolic $\mathbb{H}^3$, and we use it to prove that any open, connected, orientable surface can be properly embedded in $\mathbb{H}^3$as an area-minimizing surface. Moreover, the embedding can be constructed in such a way that the limit sets of different ends are disjoint.