Foliations by constant mean curvature tubes (Q819545)

The authors consider a compact Riemannian manifold \(M\) and families of submanifolds with constant mean curvature (CMC submanifolds) varying from one member of the family to another. They study the existence of families of CMC hypersurfaces which condense to a submanifold \(\Gamma\) of \(M\). The codimension of \(\Gamma\) is assumed to be greater than 1. The main results concern the existence of such families which form partial foliations and the geometric nature of the submanifolds \(\Gamma\), particularly 1-dimensional, to which such families can condense. The geodesic tube \(T_\rho(\Gamma)\) of \(\Gamma\) with a radius \(\rho\) smaller than the radius of curvature of \(\Gamma\) plays an essential role in some important constructions such as CMC perturbations of the tubes \(T_\rho(\Gamma)\) given in the paper.