Stable CMC and Index One Minimal Surfaces in Conformally Flat Manifolds

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU077zbMATH Open1321.53076arXiv1306.4458OpenAlexW2962728539MaRDI QIDQ5264490FDOQ5264490

Rabah Souam

Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a Riemannian 3-manifold of nonnegative Ricci curvature, Ric $geq0.$ We suppose that $M$ is conformally flat and simply connected or more generally that it admits a conformal immersion into the standard 3-sphere. Let $Sigma$ be a compact connected and orientable surface immersed in $M$ which is a stable constant mean curvature (CMC) surface or an index one minimal surface. We prove that $Sigma$ is homeomorphic either to a sphere or to a torus. Moreover, in case $Sigma$ is homeomorphic to a torus, then it is embedded, minimal, conformal to a flat square torus and Ric$(N)=0$ where $N$ is a unit field normal to $Sigma.$ The result is sharp, we can perturb the standard metric on the 3-sphere in its conformal class to obtain metrics of nonnegative Ricci curvature admitting minimal tori which are stable as CMC surfaces. As a consequence, in any 3-sphere of positive Ricci curvature which is conformally flat, the isoperimetric domains are topologically 3-balls. This proves a special case of a conjecture of A. Ros.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4458

zbMATH Keywords

positive Ricci curvatureconformal classRiemannian three-manifoldconformally flat

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Cited In (3)

• On the min-max width of unit volume three-spheres
• On the stability of minimal submanifolds in conformal spheres
• Characterization of hypersurfaces via the second eigenvalue of the Jacobi operator

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