Stability of submanifolds with parallel mean curvature in calibrated manifolds

Abstract: On a Riemannian manifold

with an

(m + 1)

-calibration

O m e g a

, we prove that an

m

-submanifold

M

with constant mean curvature

H

and calibrated extended tangent space

m a t h b b R H o p l u s T M

is a critical point of the area functional for variations that preserve the enclosed

O m e g a

-volume. This recovers the case described by Barbosa, do Carmo and Eschenburg, when

n = 1

and

O m e g a

is the volume element of

. To the second variation we associate an

O m e g a

-Jacobi operator and define

O m e g a

-stablility. Under natural conditions, we prove that the Euclidean

m

-spheres are the unique

O m e g a

-stable submanifolds of

m a t h b b R^{m + n}

. We study the

O m e g a

-stability of geodesic

m

-spheres of a fibred space form

M^{m + n}

with totally geodesic

(m + 1)

-dimensional fibres.

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