On the nullity of conformal Killing graphs in foliated Riemannian spaces (Q2510417)

The paper studies the entire conformal Killing graphs in foliated Riemannian manifolds. Let \(\overline{M}\) be an \((n + 1)\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold endowed with a complete conformal Killing vector field \(V\) whose orthogonal distribution is integrable. Then, an entire conformal Killing graph \(\Sigma \left (z \right )\) is the graph constructed through the flow generated by \(V\) on \(\overline{M}\) and the domain of definition of \(\Sigma \left (z \right )\) is exactly an integral leaf of the foliation which is orthogonal to \(V\). The first main result of the paper is a characterization of totally geodesic entire conformal Killing graphs (Theorem 4.4). Finally, the last main result is a lower estimate for the index of minimum relative nullity of entire conformal Killing graphs in a Riemannian manifold of constant sectional curvature (Theorem 5.2).