A Hopf theorem for non-constant mean curvature and a conjecture of A. D. Alexandrov

DOI10.1007/S00208-015-1351-4MaRDI QIDQ343152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors José A. Gálvez, Pablo Mira

Publication date 25 November 2016

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07419

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss maphomogeneous three-manifoldssurfaces with prescribed mean curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove a uniqueness theorem for immersed spheres of prescribed (non-constant) mean curvature in homogeneous three-manifolds. In particular, this uniqueness theorem proves a conjecture by A.D. Alexandrov about immersed spheres of prescribed Weingarten curvature in R3 for the special but important case of prescribed mean curvature. As a consequence, we extend the classical Hopf uniqueness theorem for constant mean curvature spheres to the case of immersed spheres of prescribed antipodally symmetric mean curvature in R3.

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