The geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian spaces

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DOI10.1007/S00574-011-0015-6zbMATH Open1242.53068arXiv0908.1447OpenAlexW2135193700WikidataQ115385758 ScholiaQ115385758MaRDI QIDQ420547FDOQ420547


Authors: Antonio Caminha Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 22 May 2012

Published in: Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we examine different aspects of the geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. We begin by getting obstructions to the existence of closed conformal and nonparallel vector fields on complete manifolds with nonpositive Ricci curvature, thus generalizing a theorem of T. K. Pan. Then we explain why it is so difficult to find examples, other than trivial ones, of spaces having at least two closed, conformal and homothetic vector fields. We then focus on isometric immersions, firstly generalizing a theorem of J. Simons on cones with parallel mean curvature to spaces furnished with a closed, Ricci null conformal vector field; then we prove general Bernstein-type theorems for certain complete, not necessarily cmc, hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds furnished with closed conformal vector fields. In particular, we obtain a generalization of theorems J. Jellett and A. Barros and P. Sousa for complete cmc radial graphs over finitely punctured geodesic spheres of Riemannian space forms.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1447




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