On free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in the Riemannian Schwarzschild space

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00727-9zbMATH Open1483.53080arXiv2102.12447OpenAlexW3191353728WikidataQ115376734 ScholiaQ115376734MaRDI QIDQ2665614FDOQ2665614

Authors: José M. Espinar, Ezequiel R. Barbosa 

Publication date: 19 November 2021

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In contrast with the 3-dimensional case (cf. cite{RaMo}), where rotationally symmetric totally geodesic free boundary minimal surfaces have Morse index one; we prove in this work that the Morse index of a free boundary rotationally symmetric totally geodesic hypersurface of the $n$-dimensional Riemannnian Schwarzschild space with respect to variations that are tangential along the horizon is zero, for $ngeq4$. Moreover, we show that there exist non-compact free boundary minimal hypersurfaces which are not totally geodesic, $ngeq8$, with Morse index equal to $0$. Also, it is shown that, for $ngeq4$, there exist infinitely many non-compact free boundary minimal hypersurfaces, which are not congruent to each other, with infinite Morse index. We also study the density at infinity of a free boundary minimal hypersurface with respect to a minimal cone constructed over a minimal hypersurface of the unit Euclidean sphere. We obtain a lower bound for the density in terms of the area of the boundary of the hypersurface and the area of the minimal hypersurface in the unit sphere. This lower bound is optimal in the sense that only minimal cones achieve it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12447

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal hypersurfacesMorse indexRiemannian Schwarzschild manifoldSimons' conesstable free boundary minimal hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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• On the index of a free-boundary minimal surface in Riemannian Schwarzschild-AdS
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• Frankel's property for free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in the Riemannian Schwarzschild manifolds
• Rigidity and vanishing theorems for submanifolds with free boundary in the unit ball
• Free boundary minimal hypersurfaces outside of the ball

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