On minimal spheres of area 4 and rigidity

DOI10.4171/CMH/338zbMATH Open1307.53034arXiv1208.6151WikidataQ125762967 ScholiaQ125762967MaRDI QIDQ484262FDOQ484262

Harold Rosenberg, Laurent Mazet

Publication date: 6 January 2015

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian $3$-manifold with sectional curvatures between $0$ and $1$. A minimal $2$-sphere immersed in $M$ has area at least $4pi$. If an embedded minimal sphere has area $4pi$, then $M$ is isometric to the unit $3$-sphere or to a quotient of the product of the unit $2$-sphere with $mathbbR$, with the product metric. We also obtain a rigidity theorem for the existence of hyperbolic cusps. Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian $3$-manifold with sectional curvatures bounded above by $-1$. Suppose there is a $2$-torus $T$ embedded in $M$ with mean curvature one. Then the mean convex component of $M$ bounded by $T$ is a hyperbolic cusp;,i.e., it is isometric to $TimesmathbbR$ with the constant curvature $-1$ metric: $e^{-2t}dsigm{a}_0^2+d{t}^2$ with $dsigm{a}_0^2$ a flat metric on $T$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6151

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zbMATH Keywords

area of minimal spherehyperbolic cusprigidity of \(3\)-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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