Classification of hypersurfaces with two distinct principal curvatures and closed M?bius form in \mathbb{S}^{m + 1}

Let x be an m-dimensional umbilic-free hypersurface in an (m + 1)-dimensional unit sphere Sm+1 (m≥3). In this paper, we classify and explicitly express the hypersurfaces with two distinct principal curvatures and closed Mbius form, and then we characterize and classify conformally flat hypersurfaces of dimension larger than 3.     

Conformally flat Lorentzian hypersurfaces in ℝ<Stack><Subscript>1</Subscript><Superscript>4</Superscript></Stack> with three distinct principal curvatures

A three dimensional Lorentzian hypersurface x: M ₁ ³ → ? ₁ ⁴ is called conformally flat if its induced metric is conformal to the flat Lorentzian metric, and this property is preserved under the conformal transformation of ? ₁ ⁴ . Using the projective light-cone model, for those whose shape operators have three distinct real eigenvalues, we calculate the integrability conditions by constructing a scalar conformal invariant and a canonical moving frame in this paper. Similar to the Riemannian case, these hypersurfaces can be determined by the solutions to some system of partial differential equations.     

Biharmonic Hypersurfaces in a Conformally Flat Space

Biharmonic hypersurfaces in a generic conformally flat space are studied in this paper. The equation of such hypersurfaces is derived and used to determine the conformally flat metric ${f^{-2}\delta_{ij}}$ on the Euclidean space ${\mathbb{R}^{m+1}}$ so that a minimal hypersurface ${M^{m}\longrightarrow (\mathbb{R}^{m+1}, \delta_{ij})}$ in a Euclidean space becomes a biharmonic hypersurface ${M^m\longrightarrow (\mathbb{R}^{m+1}, f^{-2}\delta_{ij})}$ in the conformally flat space. Our examples include all biharmonic hypersurfaces found in Ou (Pac J Math 248(1):217–232, 2010) and Ou and Tang (Mich Math J 61:531–542, 2012) as special cases.     

Timelike surfaces of constant mean curvature ±1 in anti-de Sitter 3-space ℍ3 1(−1)

It is shown that timelike surfaces of constant mean curvature ± in anti-de Sitter 3-space ?³ ₁(?1) can be constructed from a pair of Lorentz holomorphic and Lorentz antiholomorphic null curves in ?SL₂? via Bryant type representation formulae. These Bryant type representation formulae are used to investigate an explicit one-to-one correspondence, the so-called Lawson–Guichard correspondence, between timelike surfaces of constant mean curvature ± 1 and timelike minimal surfaces in Minkowski 3-space E ³ ₁. The hyperbolic Gauß map of timelike surfaces in ?³ ₁(?1), which is a close analogue of the classical Gauß map is considered. It is discussed that the hyperbolic Gauß map plays an important role in the study of timelike surfaces of constant mean curvature ± 1 in ?³ ₁(?1). In particular, the relationship between the Lorentz holomorphicity of the hyperbolic Gauß map and timelike surface of constant mean curvature ± 1 in ?³ ₁(?1) is studied.     

Conformally Flat Hypersurfaces of E4

We consider 3-dimensional conformally flat hypersurfaces of E ⁴ with 2 different principal curvatures such that the coordinate directions are principal directions. We describe explicitly those which allow an immersion with constant mean curvature. They are shown to be in close correspondence with solutions of the nonlinear integrable sine-Gordon and sinh-Gordon equations. Conversely, this provides a geometrical characterization for this particular class of conformally flat hypersurfaces of E ⁴.     

Infinitesimal CR automorphisms of rigid hypersurfaces in C2

In this paper, we describe the space of infinitesimal CR automorphisms of a rigid, real analytic, real hypersurface in C². We use these results to obtain a geometric characterization of the homogeneous hypersurfaces. Here, a hypersurface is called homogeneous if it is equivalent to one given by an equation of the formIm(w) =p wherep is a homogeneous polynomial inz and \(\bar z\) . This gives an answer in dimension 2 to a problem posed by Linda Rothschild. We give another answer, in terms of a normal form for the defining function, in our paper “A normal form for rigid hypersurfaces in C².”     

Stability index jump for constant mean curvature hypersurfaces of spheres

It is known that the totally umbilical hypersurfaces in the (n + 1)-dimensional spheres are characterized as the only hypersurfaces with weak stability index 0. That is, a compact hypersurface with constant mean curvature, cmc, in S ⁿ⁺¹, different from an Euclidean sphere, must have stability index greater than or equal to 1. In this paper we prove that the weak stability index of any non-totally umbilical compact hypersurface ${M \subset S^{{n+1}}}$ with cmc cannot take the values 1, 2, 3 . . . , n.     

Liouville theorem,conformally invariant cones and umbilical surfaces for Grushin-type metrics

We prove a classification theorem for conformal maps with respect to the control distance generated by a system of diagonal vector fields in ℝ ⁿ . It turns out that in many cases all such maps can be obtained as compositions of suitable dilations, inversions and isometries. Our methods involve a study of the singular Riemannian metric associated with the vector fields. In particular, we identify some conformally invariant cones related to the Weyl tensor. The knowledge of such cones enables us to classify all umbilical hypersurfaces.     

Lightlike Hypersurfaces on Manifolds Endowed with a Conformal Structure of Lorentzian Signature

The authors study the geometry of lightlike hypersurfaces on manifolds (M, c) endowed with a pseudoconformal structure c = CO(n – 1, 1) of Lorentzian signature. Such hypersurfaces are of interest in general relativity since they can be models of different types of physical horizons. On a lightlike hypersurface, the authors consider the fibration of isotropic geodesics and investigate their singular points and singular submanifolds. They construct a conformally invariant normalization of a lightlike hypersurface intrinsically connected with its geometry and investigate affine connections induced by this normalization. The authors also consider special classes of lightlike hypersurfaces. In particular, they investigate lightlike hypersurfaces for which the elements of the constructed normalization are integrable.     

On the Ma–Trudinger–Wang curvature on surfaces

We investigate the properties of the Ma–Trudinger–Wang nonlocal curvature tensor in the case of surfaces. In particular, we prove that a strict form of the Ma–Trudinger– Wang condition is stable under C ⁴ perturbation if the nonfocal domains are uniformly convex; and we present new examples of positively curved surfaces which do not satisfy the Ma–Trudinger–Wang condition. As a corollary of our results, optimal transport maps on a “sufficiently flat” ellipsoid are in general nonsmooth.     

Willmore hypersurfaces with constant Möbius curvature in R n+1

For an immersed hypersurface ${f : M^n \rightarrow R^{n+1}}$ without umbilical points, one can define the Möbius metric g on f which is invariant under the Möbius transformation group. The volume functional of g is a generalization of the well-known Willmore functional, whose critical points are called Willmore hypersurfaces. In this paper, we prove that if a n-dimensional Willmore hypersurfaces ${(n \geq 3)}$ has constant sectional curvature c with respect to g, then c = 0, n = 3, and this Willmore hypersurface is Möbius equivalent to the cone over the Clifford torus in ${S^{3} \subset R^{4}}$ . Moreover, we extend our previous classification of hypersurfaces with constant Möbius curvature of dimension ${n \ge 4}$ to n = 3, showing that they are cones over the homogeneous torus ${S^1(r) \times S^1(\sqrt{1 - r^2}) \subset S^3}$ , or cylinders, cones, rotational hypersurfaces over certain spirals in the space form R ², S ², H ², respectively.     

Dupin'sche Hyperflächen in E4

A hypersurface M in Eⁿ is called a Dupin hypersurface if along each curvature surface of M the corresponding principal curvature is constant. For n=3 the only Dupin hypersurfaces are spheres, planes and the well known cyclides of Dupin. In this paper all Dupin hypersurfaces in E⁴ are explicitly determined.     

Real hypersurfaces of a complex space form

In this paper, we show that an n-dimensional connected non-compact Ricci soliton isometrically immersed in the flat complex space form ${(C^{\frac{n+1}{2}},J,\left\langle ,\right\rangle )}$ , with potential vector field of the Ricci soliton is the characteristic vector field of the real hypersurface is an Einstein manifold. We classify connected Hopf hypersurfaces in the flat complex space form ${(C^{\frac{n+1}{2}},J,\left\langle ,\right\rangle )}$ and also obtain a characterization for the Hopf hypersurfaces in ${(C^{\frac{n+1}{2}},J,\left\langle ,\right\rangle ) }$ .     

Conformally flat real hypersurfaces in nonflat complex planes

In this paper, we prove that there are no conformally flat real hypersurfaces in nonflat complex space forms of complex dimension two provided that the structure vector field is an eigenvector field of the Ricci operator. This extends some recent results by Cho (Conformally flat normal almost contact 3-manifolds, Honam Math. J. 38 (2016) 59–69) and Kon (3-dimensional real hypersurfaces with η-harmonic curvature, in: Hermitian–Grassmannian Submanifolds, Springer, Singapore, 2017, pp. 155–164).     

A note on almost kähler manifolds

For anyn ≥ 2, we give examples of almost Kähler conformally flat manifoldsM ²ⁿ which are not Kähler. We discuss the meaning of these examples in the context of the Goldberg conjecture on almost Kahler manifolds.     

Real hypersurfaces of a complex space form

In this paper, we show that an n-dimensional connected non-compact Ricci soliton isometrically immersed in the flat complex space form ){(C^{\frac{n+1}{2}},J,\left\langle ,\right\rangle )}, with potential vector field of the Ricci soliton is the characteristic vector field of the real hypersurface is an Einstein manifold. We classify connected Hopf hypersurfaces in the flat complex space form (C ^{á ñ\fracn+12},J, á , ñ ){(C^{\frac{n+1}{2}},J,\left\langle ,\right\rangle )} and also obtain a characterization for the Hopf hypersurfaces in (C^\fracn+12,J, á , ñ ) {(C^{\frac{n+1}{2}},J,\left\langle ,\right\rangle ) }.     

Symmetries of Null Geometry in Indefinite Kenmotsu Manifolds

Null hypersurfaces have metrics with vanishing determinants and this degeneracy of these metrics leads to several difficulties. In this paper, null hypersurfaces of indefinite Kenmotsu space forms, tangent to the structure vector field, are studied with specific attention to locally symmetric, semi-symmetric and Ricci semi-symmetric null hypersurfaces. We show that locally symmetric and semi-symmetric null hypersurfaces are totally geodesic and parallel. These also hold for Ricci semi-symmetric null hypersurfaces, under a certain condition. We prove that, in null Einstein hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kenmotsu space form, tangent to the structure vector field, the local symmetry, semisymmetry and Ricci semi-symmetry notions are equivalent. For totally contact umbilical null hypersurfaces, we show that there are η-“Weyl” connections adapted to the induced structure on the null hypersurface.     

Moduli of flat conformal structures of hyperbolic type

To each flat conformal structure (FCS) of hyperbolic type in the sense of Kulkarni-Pinkall, we associate, for all \({\theta\in[(n-1)\pi/2,n\pi/2[}\) and for all r > tan(θ/n) a unique immersed hypersurface \({\Sigma_{r,\theta}=(M,i_{r,\theta})}\) in \({\mathbb{H}^{n+1}}\) of constant θ-special Lagrangian curvature equal to r. We show that these hypersurfaces smoothly approximate the boundary of the canonical hyperbolic end associated to the FCS by Kulkarni and Pinkall and thus obtain results concerning the continuous dependance of the hyperbolic end and of the Kulkarni-Pinkall metric on the flat conformal structure.     

Nonlinear partial differential systems on Riemannian manifolds with their geometric applications

We make the first study of how the existence of (essential) positive supersolutions of nonlinear degenerate partial differential equations on a manifold affects the topology, geometry, and analysis of the manifold. For example, for surfaces in R³ we prove a Bernstein-type theorem that generalizes and unifies three distinct theorems. In higher dimensions, we provide topological obstructions for a minimal hypersurface in Rⁿ⁺¹ to admit an essential positive supersolution. This immediately yields information about the Gauss map of complete minimal hypersurfaces in Rⁿ⁺¹. By coping with a wider class of nonlinear partial differential equations that are involved with (p)-harmonic maps and (p)-superstrongly unstable manifolds, we derive information on the regularity of minimizers, homotopy groups, and solutions to Dirichlet problems, from the existence of essential positive supersolutions.     

On the geometry of conformally stationary Lorentz spaces

We study several aspects of the geometry of conformally stationary Lorentz manifolds, and particularly of GRW spaces, due to the presence of a closed conformal vector field. More precisely, we begin by extending a result of J. Simons on the minimality of cones in Euclidean space to these spaces, and apply it to the construction of complete, noncompact minimal Lorentz submanifolds of both de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spaces. Then we state and prove very general Bernstein-type theorems for spacelike hypersurfaces in conformally stationary Lorentz manifolds, one of which not assuming the hypersurface to be of constant mean curvature. Finally, we study the strong r-stability of spacelike hypersurfaces of constant r-th mean curvature in a conformally stationary Lorentz manifold of constant sectional curvature, extending previous results in the current literature.