Examples and structure of CMC surfaces in some Riemannian and Lorentzian homogeneous spaces

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Abstract: It is proved that the holomorphic quadratic differential associated to CMC surfaces in Riemannian products mathbbS2imesRr and mathbbH2imesRr discovered by U. Abresch and H. Rosenberg could be obtained as a linear combination of usual Hopf differentials. Using this fact, we are able to extend it for Lorentzian products. Families of examples of helicoidal CMC surfaces on these spaces are explicitly described. We also present some characterizations of CMC rotationally invariant discs and spheres. Finally, after establish some height and area estimates, we prove the existence of constant mean curvature Killing graphs.


\textit{U. Abresch} and \textit{H. Rosenberg} [Acta. Math. 193, 141--174 (2004; Zbl 1078.53053)] have proved the existence of a quadratic differential \(Q\) for an immersed surface in \(M^{2}(k)\times \mathbb{R}\) that is holomorphic when the surface has constant mean curvature, where \(M^{2}(k)\) is a 2-dimensional simply connected space form of constant curvature \(k\). The idea of the paper under review is to relate the differential \(Q\) on a surface immersed in \(M^{2}(k)\times \mathbb{R}\) with the usual Hopf differential after embedding \(M^{2}(k)\times \mathbb{R}\) in some Euclidean space \(E^{4}\). It is proved that \(Q\) can be written as a linear combination of two Hopf differential associated to two normal directions spanning the normal bundle of the surface in \(E^{4}.\) The result remains true when the product \(M^{2}(k)\times \mathbb{R}\) is endowed with a Lorentzian metric. Also, a characterization of stable constant mean curvature disks with circulary boundary on \(M^{2}(k)\times \mathbb{R}\) and estimates of some geometrical data of constant mean curvature surfaces with boundary lying on vertical planes in \(M^{2}(k)\times \mathbb{R}\) are given.











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