Characterization of hypersurfaces in four-dimensional product spaces via two different Spin^c structures

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Abstract: The Riemannian product mathbbM1(c1)imesmathbbM2(c2), where mathbbMi(ci) denotes the 2-dimensional space form of constant sectional curvature ciinmathbbR, has two different Spinc structures carrying each a parallel spinor. The restriction of these two parallel spinor fields to a 3-dimensional hypersurface M characterizes the isometric immersion of M into mathbbM1(c1)imesmathbbM2(c2). As an application, we prove that totally umbilical hypersurfaces of mathbbM1(c1)imesmathbbM1(c1) and totally umbilical hypersurfaces of mathbbM1(c1)imesmathbbM2(c2) (c1eqc2) having a local structure product, are of constant mean curvature.


A Riemannian product of two 2-dimensional space forms of constant curvature admits two different \(\text{Spin}^{\text{c}}\) structures that carry parallel spinor fields. (A \(\text{Spin}^{\text{c}}\) structure is a complex analog of a spinor structure.) The main result of this paper is that the restrictions of the two spinor fields to a hypersurface in such a product characterize the hypersurface. Corollaries are that totally umbilical hypersurfaces in a product of two space forms of the same curvature are of constant mean curvature, and that totally umbilical hypersurfaces in a product of two space forms of the different curvature, which also have a local product structure, are also of constant mean curvature.



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