Height estimates for constant mean curvature graphs in \(\mathrm{Nil}_3\) and \(\widetilde{PSL_2}(\mathbb{R})\) (Q1737367)

The family of homogeneous, simply connected $3$-dimensional manifolds $\mathbb E$ with a $4$-dimensional isometry group can be defined as a family of Riemannian submersions $\pi:\mathbb E\to\mathbb M^2(\kappa)$, where $\mathbb M^2(\kappa)$ is the complete, simply connected surface of constant curvature $\kappa\in\mathbb R$. A vertical graph in $\mathbb E$ is a surface with the property that it intersects each fibre of the submersion at most once. \par In this paper, the authors obtain height estimates for compact, constant mean curvature vertical graphs in the Heisenberg space $\mathrm{Nil}_3$ and in the space $\widetilde{PSL_2}(\mathbb R)$, the universal cover of the positively oriented isometries of the hyperbolic plane, which correspond to the particular choices of the above submersions. To obtain the height estimates they use the fact that such graphs are stable, hence have bounded curvature at any fixed positive distance from their boundary. As a straightforward consequence, they also obtain a structure-type result for complete graphs defined on relatively compact domains.