Complete classification of spatial surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in arbitrary non-flat pseudo-Riemannian space forms

Submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector play important roles in differential geometry, theory of harmonic maps as well as in physics. Spatial surfaces in 4D Lorentzian space forms with parallel mean curvature vector were classified by B. Y. Chen and J. Van der Veken in [9]. Recently, spatial surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in arbitrary pseudo-Euclidean spaces are also classified in [7]. In this article, we classify spatial surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in pseudo-Riemannian spheres and pseudo-hyperbolic spaces with arbitrary codimension and arbitrary index. Consequently, we achieve the complete classification of spatial surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in all pseudo-Riemannian space forms. As an immediate by-product, we obtain the complete classifications of spatial surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in arbitrary Lorentzian space forms.      

A rigidity theorem for a space-like graph¶of higher codimension

We prove a rigidity theorem for a space-like graph with parallel mean curvature of arbitrary dimension and codimension in pseudo-Euclidean space via properties of its harmonic Gauss map. We also give an estimate of the squared norm of the second fundamental form in terms of the mean curvature and the image diameter under the Gauss map for space-like submanifolds with parallel mean curvature in pseudo-Euclidean space. The estimate also implies the former theorem. Received: 10 December 1999     

Codimension of immersions with parallel pluri-mean curvature

Immersions with parallel pluri-mean curvature into euclidean n-space generalize constant mean curvature immersions of surfaces to Kähler manifolds of complex dimension m. Examples are the standard embeddings of Kähler symmetric spaces into the Lie algebra of its transvection group. We give a lower bound for the codimension of arbitrary ppmc immersions. In particular we show that M is locally symmetric if the codimension is minimal.     

Quasi-minimal rotational surfaces in pseudo-Euclidean four-dimensional space

In the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with neutral metric there are three types of rotational surfaces with two-dimensional axis — rotational surfaces of elliptic, hyperbolic or parabolic type. A surface whose mean curvature vector field is lightlike is said to be quasi-minimal. In this paper we classify all rotational quasi-minimal surfaces of elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic type, respectively.     

Stability and geometric properties of constant weighted mean curvature hypersurfaces in gradient Ricci solitons

In this paper, we study stability properties of hypersurfaces with constant weighted mean curvature (CWMC) in gradient Ricci solitons. The CWMC hypersurfaces generalize the f-minimal hypersurfaces and appear naturally in the isoperimetric problems in smooth metric measure spaces. We obtain a result about the relationship between the properness and extrinsic volume growth under the assumption of a limitation for the weighted mean curvature of the immersion. Moreover, we estimate Morse index for CWMC hypersurfaces in terms of the dimension of the space of parallel vector fields restricted to hypersurface.     

Classification of marginally trapped Lorentzian flat surfaces in and its application to biharmonic surfaces

A surface in a semi-Riemannian manifold is called marginally trapped if its mean curvature vector field is light-like at each point. In this article, we classify marginally trapped Lorentzian flat surfaces in the pseudo-Euclidean space . As an application, we obtain the complete classification of biharmonic Lorentzian surfaces in with light-like mean curvature vector.     

Induced Surfaces and Their Integrable Dynamics Ii. Generalized Weierstrass Representations in 4-d Spaces and Deformations via Ds Hierarchy

Extensions of the generalized Weierstrass representation to generic surfaces in 4-D Euclidean and pseudo-Euclidean spaces are given. Geometric characteristics of surfaces are calculated. It is shown that integrable deformations of such induced surfaces are generated by the Davey–Stewartson hierarchy. Geometrically, these deformations are characterized by the invariance of an infinite set of functionals over surface. The Willmore functional (the total squared mean curvature) is the simplest of them. Various particular classes of surfaces and their integrable deformations are considered.     

Some results on space-like self-shrinkers

We study space-like self-shrinkers of dimension n in pseudo-Euclidean space R_m^m+n with index m. We derive drift Laplacian of the basic geometric quantities and obtain their volume estimates in pseudo-distance function. Finally, we prove rigidity results under minor growth conditions in terms of the mean curvature or the image of Gauss maps.     

Surfaces with zero mean curvature vector in neutral 4-manifolds

Space-like surfaces and time-like surfaces with zero mean curvature vector in oriented neutral 4-manifolds are isotropic and compatible with the orientations of the spaces if and only if their lifts to the space-like and the time-like twistor spaces respectively are horizontal. In neutral Kähler surfaces and paraKähler surfaces, complex curves and paracomplex curves respectively are such surfaces and characterized by one additional condition. In neutral 4-dimensional space forms, the holomorphic quartic differentials defined on such surfaces vanish. There exist time-like surfaces with zero mean curvature vector and zero holomorphic quartic differential which are not compatible with the orientations of the spaces and the conformal Gauss maps of time-like surfaces of Willmore type and their analogues give such surfaces.     

A Bernstein theorem for complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space

We obtain a gradient estimate for the Gauss maps from complete spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in Minkowski space into the hyperbolic space. As an application, we prove a Bernstein theorem which says that if the image of the Gauss map is bounded from one side, then the spacelike constant mean curvature hypersurface must be linear. This result extends the previous theorems obtained by B. Palmer [Pa] and Y.L. Xin [Xin1] where they assume that the image of the Gauss map is bounded. We also prove a Bernstein theorem for spacelike complete surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector in four-dimensional spaces. Received July 4, 1997 / Accepted October 9, 1997     

Surfaces with parallel normalized mean curvature vector

A surfaceM in a Riemannian manifold is said to have parallel normalized mean curvature vector if the mean curvature vector is nonzero and the unit vector in the direction of the mean curvature vector is parallel in the normal bundle. In this paper, it is proved that every analytic surface in a euclideanm-spaceE ^m with parallel normalized mean curvature vector must either lies in aE ⁴ or lies in a hypersphere ofE ^m as a minimal surface. Moreover, it is proved that if a Riemann sphere inE ^m has parallel normalized mean curvature vector, then it lies either in aE ³ or in a hypersphere ofE ^m as a minimal surfaces. Applications to the classification of surfaces with constant Gauss curvature and with parallel normalized mean curvature vector are also given.     

Parallel mean curvature surfaces in symmetric spaces

We present a reduction-of-codimension theorem for surfaces with parallel mean curvature in symmetric spaces.     

Constant Gaussian Curvature Surfaces with Parallel Mean Curvature Vector in Two-Dimensional Complex Space Forms

We classify constant Gaussian curvature surfaces with nonzero parallel mean curvature vector in two-dimensional complex space forms. As a result, we find new examples of such surfaces.     

Screw invariant marginally trapped surfaces in Minkowski 4-space

A spacelike surface in a Lorentzian manifold whose mean curvature vector is lightlike everywhere is called marginally trapped. The classification of marginally trapped surfaces in Minkowski 4-space which are invariant under a subgroup of the Lorentz group that leaves invariant a lightlike direction, i.e. the so-called screw invariant surfaces, is obtained. As corollaries, the screw invariant marginally trapped surfaces with harmonic mean curvature vector and with prescribed Gaussian curvature are explicitly described.     

Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces in $${\mathbb {M}}^2(c)\times \mathbb {R}$$ and Finite Total Curvature

We consider surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector field and finite total curvature in product spaces of type \({\mathbb {M}}^n(c)\times {\mathbb {R}}\), where \({\mathbb {M}}^n(c)\) is a space form and characterize certain of these surfaces. When \(n=2\), our results are similar to those obtained in Bérard et al. (Ann Glob Anal Geom 16(3):273–290, 1998) for surfaces with constant mean curvature in space forms.     

常曲率空间中具平行平均曲率向量的子流形

本文利用第二基本形式的长度平方和平均曲率的关系研究常曲率空间中具平行平均曲率向量的子流形为全脐的ｐｉｎｃｈｉｎｇ问题，获得了一定条件下的最佳ｐｉｎｃｈｉｎｇ区间，并确定了ｐｈｉｎｃｎｉｎｇ区间端点处对应非全脐子流形的分类．     

Grassmann image of non-isotropic surface of pseudo-Euclidean space

We consider submanifolds of non-isotropic planes of the Grassman manifold of the pseudo-Euclidean space. We prove a theorem about the unboundedness of the sectional curvature of the submanifolds of the two-dimensional non-isotropic planes of the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with the help of immersion in the six-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space of index 3. We also introduce a concept of the indicatrix of normal curvature and study the properties of this indicatrix and the Grassman image of the non-isotropic surface of the pseudo-Euclidean space. We find a connection between the curvature of the Grassman image and the intrinsic geometry of the plane. We suggest the classification of the points of the Grassman image.     

Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces Foliated by Circles in Lorentz–Minkowski Space

We prove that a spacelike surface in L3 with nonzero constant mean curvature and foliated by pieces of circles in spacelike planes is a surface of revolution. When the planes containing the circles are timelike or null, examples of nonrotational constant mean curvature surfaces constructed by circles are presented. Finally, we prove that a nonzero constant mean curvature spacelike surface foliated by pieces of circles in parallel planes is a surface of revolution.     

Surfaces in {\mathbb{R}^4} with constant principal angles with respect to a plane

We study surfaces in ${\mathbb{R}^4}$ whose tangent spaces have constant principal angles with respect to a plane. Using a PDE we prove the existence of surfaces with arbitrary constant principal angles. The existence of such surfaces turns out to be equivalent to the existence of a special local symplectomorphism of ${\mathbb{R}^2}$ . We classify all surfaces with one principal angle equal to 0 and observe that they can be constructed as the union of normal holonomy tubes. We also classify the complete constant angles surfaces in ${\mathbb{R}^4}$ with respect to a plane. They turn out to be extrinsic products. We characterize which surfaces with constant principal angles are compositions in the sense of Dajczer-Do Carmo. Finally, we classify surfaces with constant principal angles contained in a sphere and those with parallel mean curvature vector field.     

Surfaces in a pseudo-Euclidean space

A survey of results on regular and nonregular surfaces in a three-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space. The method of approximating a convex surface by polyhedra and the intrinsic construction of polyhedra of negative curvature are considered in detail. A theorem on the existence in a pseudo-Euclidean space of a convex polyhedron with given polyhedral metric of negative curvature with a finite number of vertices is proved.Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Problemy Geometrii, Vol. 11, pp. 177–202, 1980.