Deformations of totally geodesic foliations and minimal surfaces in negatively curved 3-manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00039-021-00568-2MaRDI QIDQ2232159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ben Lowe

Publication date 4 October 2021

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08651

zbMATH Keywords

almost-Fuchsian manifoldsfamily of negatively curved metricsfoliations of the Grassmann bundleHausdorff distancetotally geodesic planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

Abstract: Let $g_t$ be a smooth 1-parameter family of negatively curved metrics on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ starting at the hyperbolic metric. We construct foliations of the Grassmann bundle $G{r}_2(M)$ of tangent 2-planes whose leaves are (lifts of) minimal surfaces in $(M,g_t)$. These foliations are deformations of the foliation of $G{r}_2(M)$ by (lifts of) totally geodesic planes projected down from the universal cover $mathbb{H}^3$. Our construction continues to work as long as the sum of the squares of the principal curvatures of the (projections to $M$) of the leaves remains pointwise smaller in magnitude than the ambient Ricci curvature in the normal direction. In the second part of the paper we give some applications and construct negatively curved metrics for which $G{r}_2(M)$ cannot admit a foliation as above.

Review text

\textit{M. Gromov} [Enseign. Math. (2) 46, No. 3--4, 391--402 (2000; Zbl 1002.53028)] proved an important geodesic rigidity theorem. The theorem implies that the 1-dimensional foliation induced by the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of a closed hyperbolic manifold \(M\) is a topological invariant. The aim of the paper is to extend this theorem replacing geodesics by 2-dimensional minimal surfaces, but only when \(M\) has dimension 3. More precisely, let \(M\) be a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold and let \(g_t\) be a smooth 1-parameter family of negatively curved metrics on \(M\) starting at the hyperbolic metric. The author constructs a foliation of the Grassmann bundle of tangent 2-planes to \(M\), whose leaves are lifts of immersed minimal surfaces in \((M, g_t )\). This foliation exists only in some neighbourhood of the hyperbolic metric and the author shows examples when such a foliation does not exist globally. As an application, the author shows a certain density result for stable properly immersed minimal surfaces in a closed Riemannian 3-manifold, which admits a foliation as above.

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