A Bernstein‐type theorem in hyperbolic spaces (Q4494730)

In [the reviewer and \textit{H. Lawson}, Duke Math. J. 50, 995-1003 (1983; Zbl 0534.53049)], the following result was proved. Let \(\Sigma\subset \mathbf H^n\) be a hypersurface of constant mean curvature which admits a one-to-one projection onto a geodesic hyperplane of \(\mathbf H^n\). Then \(\Sigma\) is a hypersphere. In the present paper, the geodesic hyperplane is replaced by a horosphere and by assuming only the injectivity of the orthogonal projection, the following theorem is proved. Theorem. Let \(\Sigma\) be a nonzero constant mean curvature hypersurface which admits a one-to-one orthogonal projection \(\pi\) over a horosphere \(\mathcal H\). Then: (1) If \(\pi\) is surjective, \(\Sigma\) is a horosphere. (2) If \(\pi\) is not surjective and \(\pi(\Sigma)\subset\mathcal H\) is simply-connected, \(\Sigma\) is a hypersphere. The hypothesis of simple connectedness in (2) cannot be dropped, as shown by an example.