Horizontal Delaunay surfaces with constant mean curvature in \(\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}\) and \(\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R} \) (Q2159479)

In 1841 Delaunay proved that the only surfaces of revolution with constant mean curvature \(H\) were the plane, the cylinder, the sphere, the catenoid, the unduloid and the nodoid, having the plane and the catenoid \(H=0\). A century and a half later, rotationally invariant \(H\)-surfaces begun to be studied in other contexts, such as that of three-dimensional space forms. In the last decade, some papers about rotationally invariant surfaces in certain types of 3-manifolds, such as homogeneous spaces and product spaces, have been published. In particular, in [\textit{L. Mazet}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 367, No. 8, 5329--5354 (2015; Zbl 1316.53011)] undoloids in \(\mathbb{H}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}\) have been characterized. In the paper under review, the authors study Delaunay surfaces with positive constant mean curvature in \(\mathbb{S}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}\) and \(\mathbb{H}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}\), introducing a 1-parameter family of horizontal nodoids in both \(\mathbb{H}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}\) and \(\mathbb{S}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}\). In fact, one of the main results of the paper states the following: Theorem: Let \(\kappa \in \mathbb{R}\) and let \(\mathbb{M}^{2}(\kappa)\) be the complete simply connected surface of constant curvature \(\kappa\). Let \(\Gamma\) be a horizontal geodesic in \(\mathbb{M}^{2}(\kappa) \times \{ 0\}\). Then there exists a family \(\Sigma _{\lambda ,H}\) (parametrized by \(\lambda \geq 0\) and \(H>0\) such that \(4H^{2}+\kappa >0\)) of complete \(H\)-surfaces in \(\mathbb{M}^{2}(\kappa) \times \mathbb{R}\), invariant under a discrete group of translations along \(\Gamma\) with respect to which they are cylindrically bounded. They are also symmetric about the totally geodesic surfaces \(\mathbb{M}^{2}(\kappa) \times \{ 0\}\) and \(\Gamma \times \mathbb{R}\). Moreover according to the values \(\lambda =0, 0<\lambda <\frac{1}{2}, \lambda =\frac{1}{2}, \lambda > \frac{1}{2}\) one has that \(\Sigma _{\lambda ,H}\) is the \(H\)-cylinder (\(H\)-torus if \(\kappa >0\)), the undoloid-type surface, a stack of tangent rotational \(H\)-spheres centered on \(\Gamma\), or a a nodoid-type surface. The paper is very well written, and includes a motivating introduction.