Parabolicity of maximal surfaces in Lorentzian product spaces

In this paper we establish some parabolicity criteria for maximal surfaces immersed into a Lorentzian product space of the form ${M^2 \times \mathbb {R}_1}$ , where M ² is a connected Riemannian surface with non-negative Gaussian curvature and ${M^2 \times \mathbb {R}_1}$ is endowed with the Lorentzian product metric ${{\langle , \rangle}={\langle , \rangle}_M-dt^2}$ . In particular, and as an application of our main result, we deduce that every maximal graph over a starlike domain ${\Omega \subseteq M}$ is parabolic. This allows us to give an alternative proof of the non-parametric version of the Calabi–Bernstein result for entire maximal graphs in ${M^2 \times \mathbb {R}_1}$ .     

A classification theorem for Helfrich surfaces

In this paper we study the functional $\mathcal W{} _{\lambda _1,\lambda _2}$ , which is the sum of the Willmore energy, $\lambda _1$ -weighted surface area, and $\lambda _2$ -weighted volume, for surfaces immersed in $\mathbb R ^3$ . This coincides with the Helfrich functional with zero ‘spontaneous curvature’. Our main result is a complete classification of all smooth immersed critical points of the functional with $\lambda _1\ge 0$ and small $L^2$ norm of tracefree curvature, with no assumption on the growth of the curvature in $L^2$ at infinity. This not only improves the gap lemma due to Kuwert and Schätzle for Willmore surfaces immersed in $\mathbb R ^3$ but also implies the non-existence of critical points of the functional satisfying the energy condition for which the surface area and enclosed volume are positively weighted.     

Classification of hypersurfaces with constant M?bius curvature in {\mathbb{S}^{m+1}}

Let ${x: M^{m} \rightarrow \mathbb{S}^{m+1}}$ be an m-dimensional umbilic-free hypersurface in an (m?+?1)-dimensional unit sphere ${\mathbb{S}^{m+1}}$ , with standard metric I?= dx · dx. Let II be the second fundamental form of isometric immersion x. Define the positive function ${\rho=\sqrt{\frac{m}{m-1}}\|II-\frac{1}{m}tr(II)I\|}$ . Then positive definite (0,2) tensor ${\mathbf{g}=\rho^{2}I}$ is invariant under conformal transformations of ${\mathbb{S}^{m+1}}$ and is called M?bius metric. The curvature induced by the metric g is called M?bius curvature. The purpose of this paper is to classify the hypersurfaces with constant M?bius curvature.     

On real local isometric immersions of {\mathbb{C}Q^2_c} into {\mathbb{C} P^{3}}

We investigate real local isometric immersions of Kähler manifolds ${\mathbb{C}Q^2_c}$ of constant holomorphic curvature 4c into complex projective 3-space. Our main result is that the standard embedding of ${\mathbb{C}P^2}$ into ${\mathbb{C}P^3}$ has strong rigidity under the class of local isometric transformations. We also prove that there are no local isometric immersions of ${\mathbb{C}Q^2_c}$ into ${\mathbb{C}P^3}$ when they have different holomorphic curvature. An important method used is a study of the relationship between the complex structure of any locally isometric immersed ${\mathbb{C}Q^2_c}$ and the complex structure of the ambient space ${\mathbb{C}P^3}$ .     

The Ricci tensor and structure Jacobi operator of real hypersurfaces in a complex projective space

Let M be a real hypersurface with almost contact metric structure ${(\phi, \xi, \eta, g)}$ in a complex projective space ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ . A Real hypersurface M is said to be a Hopf hypersurface if ξ is principal. In this paper we investigate real hypersurfaces of ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ whose Ricci tensors S satisfy ${\nabla_{\phi\nabla_{\xi}\xi}S = 0}$ . Under some further conditions we characterize Hopf hypersurfaces of ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ .     

Biharmonic PNMC submanifolds in spheres

We obtain several rigidity results for biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields. We classify biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields and with at most two distinct principal curvatures. In particular, we determine all biharmonic surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ . Then we investigate, for (not necessarily compact) proper-biharmonic submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ , their type in the sense of B.-Y. Chen. We prove that (i) a proper-biharmonic submanifold in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ is of 1-type or 2-type if and only if it has constant mean curvature f=1 or f∈(0,1), respectively; and (ii) there are no proper-biharmonic 3-type submanifolds with parallel normalized mean curvature vector fields in $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ .     

Euclidean hypersurfaces with genuine deformations in codimension two

We classify hypersurfaces of rank two of Euclidean space ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ that admit genuine isometric deformations in ${\mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ . That an isometric immersion ${\hat{f}\colon M^n \to \mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ is a genuine isometric deformation of a hypersurface ${f\colon M^n\to\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ means that ${\hat f}$ is nowhere a composition ${\hat f=\hat F\circ f}$ , where ${\hat{F} \colon V\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \to\mathbb{R}^{n+2}}$ is an isometric immersion of an open subset V containing the hypersurface.     

Complete bounded null curves immersed in {\mathbb {C}^3} and {\rm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})}

We construct a simply connected complete bounded mean curvature one surface in the hyperbolic 3-space ${\mathcal {H}^3}$ . Such a surface in ${\mathcal {H}^3}$ can be lifted as a complete bounded null curve in ${\rm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})}$ . Using a transformation between null curves in ${\mathbb {C}^3}$ and null curves in ${\rm {SL}(2,\mathbb {C})}$ , we are able to produce the first examples of complete bounded null curves in ${\mathbb {C}^3}$ . As an application, we can show the existence of a complete bounded minimal surface in ${\mathbb {R}^3}$ whose conjugate minimal surface is also bounded. Moreover, we can show the existence of a complete bounded immersed complex submanifold in ${\mathbb {C}^2}$ .     

Uniqueness of \mathbb{C}^{ * } - and \mathbb{C}_{{\text{ + }}} -actions on Gizatullin Surfaces

A Gizatullin surface is a normal affine surface V over $ \mathbb{C} $ , which can be completed by a zigzag; that is, by a linear chain of smooth rational curves. In this paper we deal with the question of uniqueness of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -actions and $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations on such a surface V up to automorphisms. The latter fibrations are in one to one correspondence with $ \mathbb{C}_{{\text{ + }}} $ -actions on V considered up to a “speed change”. Non-Gizatullin surfaces are known to admit at most one $ \mathbb{A}^{1} $ -fibration V → S up to an isomorphism of the base S. Moreover, an effective $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -action on them, if it does exist, is unique up to conjugation and inversion t $ \mapsto $ t ^?1 of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ . Obviously, uniqueness of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -actions fails for affine toric surfaces. There is a further interesting family of nontoric Gizatullin surfaces, called the Danilov-Gizatullin surfaces, where there are in general several conjugacy classes of $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -actions and $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations, see, e.g., [FKZ1]. In the present paper we obtain a criterion as to when $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations of Gizatullin surfaces are conjugate up to an automorphism of V and the base $ S \cong \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ . We exhibit as well large subclasses of Gizatullin $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -surfaces for which a $ \mathbb{C}^{ * } $ -action is essentially unique and for which there are at most two conjugacy classes of $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ -fibrations over $ \mathbb{A}^{{\text{1}}} $ .     

The second main theorem of hypersurfaces in the projective space

We deal with a holomorphic map from the complex plane ${\mathbb{C}}$ to the n-dimensional complex projective space ${\mathbb{P}^{n}(\mathbb{C})}$ and prove the Nevanlinna Second Main Theorem for some families of non-linear hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb{P}^{n}(\mathbb{C})}$ . This Second Main Theorem implies the defect relation. If the degree of the hypersurfaces are sufficiently large, the defect of the map is smaller than one. This means that holomorphic maps which omit the irreducible hypersurface of large degree is algebraically degenerate. To prove the Second Main Theorem, we use a meromorphic partial projective connection which is totally geodesic with respect to these hypersurfaces. A meromorphic partial projective connection is a family of locally defined meromorphic connections such which work as an entirely defined meromorphic connection under the Wronskian operator. By resolving the singularity and pulling back a meromorphic partial projective connection, we also prove the Second Main Theorem for singular hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb{P}^{n}(\mathbb{C})}$ , and prove the Second Main Theorem for smooth hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb{P}^{2}(\mathbb{C})}$ which are not normal crossing.     

On the extension of the mean curvature flow

Consider a family of smooth immersions ${F(\cdot,t): M^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ of closed hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb{R}^{n+1}}$ moving by the mean curvature flow ${\frac{\partial F(p,t)}{\partial t} = -H(p,t)\cdot \nu(p,t)}$ , for ${t\in [0,T)}$ . Cooper (Mean curvature blow up in mean curvature flow, arxiv.org/abs/0902.4282) has recently proved that the mean curvature blows up at the singular time T. We show that if the second fundamental form stays bounded from below all the way to T, then the scaling invariant mean curvature integral bound is enough to extend the flow past time T, and this integral bound is optimal in some sense explained below.     

The Gauss�CKronecker curvature of minimal hypersurfaces in four-dimensional space forms

Let ${{\mathbb{Q}^4}(c)}$ be a four-dimensional space form of constant curvature c. In this paper we show that the infimum of the absolute value of the Gauss?CKronecker curvature of a complete minimal hypersurface in ${\mathbb{Q}^4(c), c\leq 0}$ , whose Ricci curvature is bounded from below, is equal to zero. Further, we study the connected minimal hypersurfaces M ³ of a space form ${{\mathbb{Q}^4}(c)}$ with constant Gauss?CKronecker curvature K. For the case c ?? 0, we prove, by a local argument, that if K is constant, then K must be equal to zero. We also present a classification of complete minimal hypersurfaces of ${\mathbb{Q}^4(c)}$ with K constant.     

Geometric rigidity for sequences of W^{2,2} conformal immersions

We analyse sequences of discs conformally immersed in $ \mathbb{R }^ n$ with energy $ \int _{ D} |A_k |^ 2 \le \gamma _n$ , where $ \gamma _n = 8\pi $ if $ n=3$ and $ \gamma _n = 4 \pi $ when $n\ge 4$ . We show that if such sequences do not weakly converge to a conformal immersion, then by a sequence of dilations we obtain a complete minimal surface with bounded total curvature, either Enneper’s minimal surface if $ n=3$ or Chen’s minimal graph if $ n \ge 4$ . In the papers, (Kuwert and Li, Comm Anal Geom 20(2), 313–340, 2012; Rivière, Adv Calculus Variations 6(1), 1–31, 2013) it was shown that if a sequence of immersed tori diverges in moduli space then $\liminf _ {k\rightarrow \infty } \mathcal W ( f_k )\ge 8\pi $ . We apply the above analysis to show that in $ \mathbb{R }^3$ if the sequence diverges so that $ \lim _{ k \rightarrow \infty } \mathcal W (f_k) =8\pi $ then there exists a sequence of Möbius transforms $ \sigma _{k}$ such that $ \sigma _k\circ f _k$ converges weakly to a catenoid.     

An isoperimetric deficit upper bound of the convex domain in a surface of constant curvature

In this paper, we give a reverse analog of the Bonnesen-style inequality of a convex domain in the surface $ \mathbb{X} $ _∈ of constant curvature ∈, that is, an isoperimetric deficit upper bound of the convex domain in $ \mathbb{X} $ _∈ . The result is an analogue of the known Bottema’s result of 1933 in the Euclidean plane $ \mathbb{E} $ ².     

Separable forms of {{\mathbb{G}}_m} -ACTIONS ON {{\mathbb{A}}^3}

Let k be a field of characteristic zero. We consider k-forms of $ {\mathbb G} $ _m -actions on $ {\mathbb A} $ ³ and show that they are linearizable. In particular, $ {\mathbb G} $ _m -actions on $ {\mathbb A} $ ³ are linearizable, and k-forms of $ {\mathbb A} $ ³ that admit an effective action of an infinite reductive group are trivial.     

Surfaces of Rotation with Constant Extrinsic Curvature in a Conformally Flat 3-Space

In this work, we relate the extrinsic curvature of surfaces with respect to the Euclidean metric and any metrics that are conformal to the Euclidean metric. We introduce the space ${\mathbb{E}_3}$ ??the 3-dimensional real vector space equipped with a conformally flat metric that is a solution of the Einstein equation. We characterize the surfaces of rotation with constant extrinsic curvature in the space ${\mathbb{E}_3}$ . We obtain a one-parameter family of two-sheeted hyperboloids that are complete surfaces with zero extrinsic curvature in ${\mathbb{E}_3}$ . Moreover, we obtain a one-parameter family of cones and show that there exists another one-parameter family of complete surfaces of rotation with zero extrinsic curvature in ${\mathbb{E}_3}$ . Moreover, we show that there exist complete surfaces with constant negative extrinsic curvature in ${\mathbb{E}_3}$ . As an application we prove that there exist complete surfaces with Gaussian curvature K ?? ? ?? < 0, in contrast with Efimov??s Theorem for the Euclidean space, and Schlenker??s Theorem for the hyperbolic space.     

Surfaces of M_k^2\times \mathbb R invariant under a one-parameter group of isometries

We assume that an immersed constant mean curvature surface ${\varSigma } \looparrowright {M_k} \times \mathbb R $ satisfies a relation involving the mean curvature, the Gaussian curvature and the angle that the unit vector of the factor $\mathbb R $ makes with the normal to the surface. This relation, although given initially in its pointwise form, can be shown to be equivalent to an integral relation. From the assumed relation, it follows that $\varSigma $ is invariant under a one-parameter group of isometries of $M_k^2\times \mathbb{R }$ which are induced by the isometries of $M_k^2$  . An application is made to describe qualitatively those surfaces for which the Abresch-Rosenberg complex quadratic form vanishes.     

On Wilking’s criterion for the Ricci flow

Wilking has recently shown that one can associate a Ricci flow invariant cone of curvature operators $C(S)$ , which are nonnegative in a suitable sense, to every $Ad_{SO(n,\mathbb{C })}$ invariant subset $S \subset \mathbf{so}(n,\mathbb{C })$ . In this article we show that if $S$ is an $Ad_{SO(n,\mathbb{C })}$ invariant subset of $\mathbf{so}(n,\mathbb{C })$ such that $S\cup \{0\}$ is closed and $C_+(S)\subset C(S)$ denotes the cone of curvature operators which are positive in the appropriate sense then one of the two possibilities holds: (a) The connected sum of any two Riemannian manifolds with curvature operators in $C_+(S)$ also admits a metric with curvature operator in $C_+(S)$ (b) The normalized Ricci flow on any compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with curvature operator in $C_+(S)$ converges to a metric of constant positive sectional curvature. We also point out that if $S$ is an arbitrary $Ad_{SO(n,\mathbb{C })}$ subset, then $C(S)$ is contained in the cone of curvature operators with nonnegative isotropic curvature.     

Postulation of Disjoint Unions of Lines and Double Lines in {\mathbb{P}^3}

A double line ${C \subset \mathbb{P}^3}$ is a connected divisor of type (2, 0) on a smooth quadric surface. Fix ${(a, c) \in \mathbb{N}^2\ \backslash\ \{(0, 0)\}}$ . Let ${X \subset \mathbb{P}^3}$ be a general disjoint union of a lines and c double lines. Then X has maximal rank, i.e. for each ${t \in \mathbb{Z}}$ either ${h^1(\mathcal{I}_X(t)) = 0}$ or ${h^0(\mathcal{I}_X(t)) = 0}$ .