Surfaces with parallel mean curvature in \(\mathbb CP^n\times\mathbb R\) and \(\mathbb CH^n\times\mathbb R\) (Q2862124)

The reviewed paper is devoted to the study of surfaces with parallel mean curvature vector (pmc surfaces) in \(\mathbb CP^n\times\mathbb R\) and \(\mathbb CH^n\times\mathbb R\), and, more genarally, in cosymplectic space forms. The authors introduce a quadratic form \(Q\) defined on surfaces immersed in cosymplectic space forms and prove that when such a surface is a pmc surface, the (2,0)-part of \(Q\) is holomorphic. Next the authors characterize the pmc surfaces of type \(\Sigma^2=\pi^{-1}(\gamma)\) in a product space \(M^n(\rho)\times\mathbb R\), where \(M^n(\rho)\) is a complex space form, \(\pi\) is the projection map and \(\gamma : I\to M^n(\rho)\) is a Frenet curve of osculating order \(r\) in \(M^n(\rho)\). They prove that such surfaces with vanishing (2,0)-part of \(Q\) exist if and only if \(\rho<0\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe next main result is a reduction theorem, which states that a non-minimal pmc surface \(\Sigma^2\) in a non-flat cosymplectic space form \(N^{2n+1}(\rho)\) is either pseudo-umbilical, then the characteristic vector field is orthogonal to \(\Sigma^2\) and the surface is anti-invariant, or it is not pseudo-umbilical and lies in a totally geodesic invariant submanifold of \(N^{2n+1}(\rho)\) with dimension less than or equal to 11. The last section of the paper is devoted to the study of anti-invariant pmc surfaces.