Embeddedness, convexity, and rigidity of hypersurfaces in product spaces

DOI10.1007/S10455-020-09745-2MaRDI QIDQ2663178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ronaldo Freire De Lima

Publication date 16 April 2021

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01509

zbMATH Keywords

convexityembeddednesshypersurfacerigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Local submanifolds (53B25) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: We establish the following Hadamard--Stoker type theorem: Let $f:M^{n}ightarrowmathscr{H}^{n}imesmathbbR$ be a complete connected hypersurface with positive definite second fundamental form, where $mathscr{H}^n$ is a Hadamard manifold. If the height function of $f$ has a critical point, then it is an embedding and $M$ is homeomorphic to $mathbb{S}^n$ or $mathbb{R}^n.$ Furthermore, $f(M)$ bounds a convex set in $mathscr{H}^{n}imesmathbbR.$ In addition, it is shown that, except for the assumption on convexity, this result is valid for hypersurfaces in $mathbb{S}^{n}imesmathbbR$ as well. We apply these theorems to show that a compact connected hypersurface in $mathbb{Q}_{e}psilo{n}^{n}imesmathbbR$ ($epsilon=pm1$) is a rotational sphere, provided it has either constant mean curvature and positive-definite second fundamental form or constant sectional curvature greater than $(epsilon+1)/2.$ We also prove that, for $$ or $mathbb{S}^n,$ any connected proper hypersurface $$ with positive semi-definite second fundamental form and height function with no critical points is embedded and isometric to $Sigm{a}^{n-1}imesmathbbR,$ where $$ is convex and homeomorphic to $mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ (for $$ we assume further that $f$ is cylindrically bounded). Analogous theorems for hypersurfaces in warped product spaces $mathbbRime{s}_{h}omathscr{H}^n$ and $mathbbRime{s}_{h}omathbb{S}^n$ are obtained. In all of these results, the manifold $M^n$ is assumed to have dimension $nge3.$

Review text

The authors establish the following Hadamard-Stoker-type result: Let \(f: M^n\to H^n\times R\), \(n\ge 3\), be a complete connected hypersurface in a Hadamard manifold with positive definite second fundamental form, and let the height function of \(f\) have a critical point, then \(M\) is embedded and homeomorphic to \(S^n\) or \(\mathbb{R}^n\); furthermore, \(f(M)\) bounds a convex set in \(H^n\times \mathbb{R}\). Section 2 contains some notation and results which will be used afterwards. In Section 3, the authors prove Theorems 1--3 and Corollaries 1 and 2. Analogous results (Theorems 4 and 5) for hypersurfaces in warped product spaces \(\mathbb{R}\times_\rho H^n\) and \(\mathbb{R}\times_\rho S^n\) are proved in Section 4.

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