Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature

Biharmonic constant mean curvature surfaces in Killing submersions

A $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold is called Killing submersion if it admits a Riemannian submersion over a surface such that its fibers are the trajectories of a complete unit Killing vector field. In this paper, we give a characterization of proper biharmonic CMC surfaces in a Killing submersion. In the last part, we also classify the proper biharmonic Hopf cylinders in a Killing submersion.

Mean curvature flow of Killing graphs

We study a Neumann problem related to the evolution of graphs under mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. We prove that in a particular case these graphs converge to a bounded minimal graph which contacts the cylinder over the domain orthogonally along its boundary.

Mean Curvature of Hypersurfaces in Killing Submersions with Bounded Shadow

Given a complete hypersurface isometrically immersed in an ambient manifold, in this paper we provide a lower bound for the norm of the mean curvature vector field of the immersion assuming that: 1) The ambient manifold admits a Killing submersion with unit-length Killing vector field. 2)The projection of the image of the immersion is bounded in the base manifold. 3)The hypersurface is stochastically complete, or the immersion is proper.

Killing frames and S-curvature of homogeneous Finsler spaces

In this paper, we first deduce a formula of S-curvature of homogeneous Finsler spaces in terms of Killing vector fields. Then we prove that a homogeneous Finsler space has isotropic S-curvature if and only if it has vanishing S-curvature. In the special case that the homogeneous Finsler space is a Randers space, we give an explicit formula which coincides with the previous formula obtained by the second author using other methods.

Curvature invariants, Killing vector fields, connections and cohomogeneity

A direct, bundle-theoretic method for defining and extending local isometries out of curvature data is developed. As a by-product, conceptual direct proofs of a classical result of Singer and a recent result of the authors are derived.

Compact stable surfaces with constant mean curvature in Killing submersions

A Killing submersion is a Riemannian submersion from a 3-manifold to a surface, both connected and orientable, whose fibres are the integral curves of a Killing vector field, not necessarily unitary. The first part of this paper deals with the classification of all Killing submersions in terms of two geometric functions, namely the bundle curvature and the length of the Killing vector field, which can be prescribed arbitrarily. In a second part, we show that if the base is compact and the submersion admits a global section, then it also admits a global minimal section. These turn out to be the…

Critical Tori for Mean Curvature Energies in Killing Submersions

We study surface energies depending on the mean curvature in total spaces of Killing submersions, which extend the classical notion of Willmore energy. Based on a symmetry reduction procedure, we construct vertical tori critical for these mean curvature energies. These vertical tori are based on closed curves critical for curvature energy functionals in Riemannian 2-space forms. The binormal evolution of these critical curves in Riemannian 3-space forms generates rotational tori solutions for an ample family of Weingarten surfaces. Therefore, we also introduce some correspondence results betwe…

从黎曼淹没构造消灭平均曲率孤立子

Killing Mean Curvature Solitons from Riemannian Submersions

针对容许非零Killing向量场的流形，利用黎曼淹没技术将平均曲率孤立子构造问题从PDE简化为ODE，得到双曲空间中旋转子的新实例。

Asymptotic Dirichlet problems in warped products

We study the asymptotic Dirichlet problem for Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature $H$ in warped product manifolds $M\times_\varrho \mathbb{R}$. In the first part of the paper, we prove the existence of Killing graphs with prescribed boundary on geodesic balls under suitable assumptions on $H$ and the mean curvature of the Killing cylinders over geodesic spheres. In the process we obtain a uniform interior gradient estimate improving previous results by Dajczer and de Lira. In the second part we solve the asymptotic Dirichlet problem in a large class of manifolds whose sectional curva…

Sequential Warped Products: Curvature and Killing Vector Fields

In this note, we introduce a new type of warped products called as sequential warped products to cover a wider variety of exact solutions to Einstein's equation. First, we study the geometry of sequential warped products and obtain covariant derivatives, curvature tensor, Ricci curvature and scalar curvature formulas. Then some important consequences of these formulas are also stated. We provide characterizations of geodesics and two different types of conformal vector fields, namely, Killing vector fields and concircular vector fields on sequential warped product manifolds. Finally, we consid…

曲率挤压条件下共形 Killing 向量场的 Bochner-Yano 型定理

Bochner-Yano Type Theorems for Conformal Killing Vector Fields under Curvature Pinching Conditions

研究曲率挤压条件下闭黎曼流形上共形 Killing 向量场，通过建立新 Bochner 型恒等式和 Moser 迭代得梯度估计，证明 Ricci 曲率有界时非平凡共形 Killing 向量场处处非零，推广了相关经典定理。

Killing Initial Data on Totally Umbilical & Compact Hypersurfaces

In this note, we give a geometric characterization of the compact and totally umbilical hypersurfaces that carry a non trivial locally static Killing Initial Data (KID). More precisely, such compact hypersurfaces have constant mean curvature and are isometric to one of the following manifolds: (i) Sn the standard sphere, (ii) a finite quotient of a warped product of a circle with a compact Einstein manifold of positive scalar curvature. In particular, these hypersurfaces have harmonic curvature and strictly positive constant scalar curvature.

Prescribing the curvature to Killing Graphs

In this work we prove the existence and uniqueness of Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature considering functions which are not necessarily constant along the flow lines of the Killing vector field.

Euler characteristic and Lipschitz-Killing curvatures of closed semi-algebraic sets

We prove a formula that relates the Euler-Poincaré characteristic of a closed semi-algebraic set to its Lipschitz-Killing curvatures

First stability eigenvalue characterization of CMC Hopf tori into Riemannian Killing submersions

We find out upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of the stability operator for compact constant mean curvature orientable surfaces immersed in a Riemannian Killing submersion. As a consequence, the strong stability of such surfaces is studied. We also characterize constant mean curvature Hopf tori as the only ones attaining the bound in certain cases.

Generalized vector cross products and Killing forms on negatively curved manifolds

Motivated by the study of Killing forms on compact Riemannian manifolds of negative sectional curvature, we introduce the notion of generalized vector cross products on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and give their classification. Using previous results about Killing tensors on negatively curved manifolds and a new characterization of $\mathrm{SU}(3)$-structures in dimension $6$ whose associated $3$-form is Killing, we then show that every Killing $3$-form on a compact $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvature vanishes if $n\ge 4$.

An interior gradient estimate for the mean curvature equation of Killing graphs and applications

We extend the interior gradient estimate due to N. Korevaar and L. Simon for solutions of the mean curvature equation from the case of Euclidean graphs to the general case of Killing graphs. Our main application is the proof of existence of Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature function for continuous boundary data, thus extending a result due to Dajczer, Hinojosa and Lira. In addition, we prove the existence and uniqueness of radial graphs in hyperbolic space with prescribed mean curvature function and asymptotic boundary data at infinity.

Yamabe Flow with prescribed scalar curvature

In this work, we study the Yamabe flow corresponding to the prescribed scalar curvature problem on compact Riemannian manifolds with negative scalar curvature. The long time existence and convergence of the flow are proved under appropriate conditions on the prescribed scalar curvature function.

Existence of nonparametric solutions for a capillary problem in warped products

We prove that there exist solutions for a non-parametric capillary problem in a wide class of Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. In other terms, we prove the existence of Killing graphs with prescribed mean curvature and prescribed contact angle along its boundary. These results may be useful for modelling stationary hypersurfaces under the influence of a non-homogeneous gravitational field defined over an arbitrary Riemannian manifold.

The prescribed scalar curvature problem for metrics with unit total volume

We solve the modified Kazdan-Warner problem of finding metrics with prescribed scalar curvature and unit total volume.

Lorentzian 流形上 Killing 向量场的 Gauss-Bonnet-Chern 型障碍

A Gauss-Bonnet-Chern type obstruction for Killing vector fields on Lorentzian manifolds

本文提出了一种新的曲率障碍，利用类时（零）截面曲率刻画偶数维（奇数维）Lorentzian 流形上 Killing 或同位向量场的存在性，并将紧致情形下的 Gauss-Bonnet-Chern 障碍推广至非零类时截面曲率。

A class of prescribed Weingarten curvature equations in Euclidean space

In this paper, we consider a class of prescribed Weingarten curvature equations. Under some sufficient condition, we obtain an existence result by the standard degree theory based on the a prior estimates for the solutions to the prescribed Weingarten curvature equations.

Helicoidal graphs with prescribed mean curvature

We prove an existence result for helicoidal graphs with prescribed mean curvature in a large class of warped product spaces which comprises space forms.

On the Chen-Lin conjecture for the prescribed scalar curvature problem

We prove a criterion of existence of solutions conjectured by C. C. Chen and C. S. Lin [20] for the prescribed scalar curvature problem on the standard n-dimensional sphere.

Prescribed $k$-symmetric curvature hypersurfaces in de Sitter space

We prove existence of compact spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed k - curvature in de Sitter space, where the prescription function depends on both space and the tilt function.

一类由Ricci张量和度量决定的广义Killing旋量

A class of generalised Killing spinors determined by the Ricci tensor and the metric

本文引入仿射Killing旋量（AKS），在调和曲率和局部共形平坦条件下分类允许AKS的黎曼自旋流形，刻画带平行1-形式的流形，并证明三维曲率齐次流形的局部齐次性及Bianchi度量的完整分类。

预定曲率流的收敛速率

Convergence rate of the prescribed curvature flow

受Carlotto等人关于Yamabe流收敛速率研究的启发，本文针对流形上的预定标量曲率问题，研究了预定标量曲率流的收敛速率。

Constant mean curvature, flux conservation, and symmetry

As first noted in Korevaar, Kusner and Solomon ("KKS"), constant mean curvature implies a homological conservation law for hypersurfaces in ambient spaces with Killing fields.In Theorem 3.5 here, we generalize that law by relaxing the topological restrictions assumed in [KKS] and by allowing a weighted mean curvature functional. We also prove a partial converse (Theorem 4.1) which roughly says that when flux is conserved along a Killing field, a hypersurface splits into two regions: one with constant (weighted) mean curvature, and one preserved by the Killing field. We demonstrate our theory b…

Surfaces of Prescribed Mean Curvature in Quasi-Fuchsian Manifolds

Let $M$ be a quasi-Fuchsian three-manifold that contains a closed incompressible surface with principal curvatures within the range of the unit interval, for a prescribed function $H$ (with mild conditions) on $M$, we construct a closed incompressible surface with mean curvature $H$ . A direct application is the existence of embedded surfaces of prescribed constant mean curvatures with constants in $(-2,2)$.

Lipschitz Continuous Hypersurfaces with Prescribed Curvature and Asymptotic Boundary in Hyperbolic Space

We prove the existence of a complete locally Lipschitz continuous hypersurface in weak sense with prescribed Weingarten curvature and asymptotic boundary at infinity in hyperbolic space under certain assumptions.

Closed hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds

We prove the existence of smooth closed hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature homeomorphic to $S^n$ for small $n, n\le6$, provided there are barriers.

Einstein Finsler Metrics and Killing Vector Fields on Riemannian Manifolds

In this paper, we use a Killing form on a Riemannian manifold to construct a class of Finsler metrics. We find equations that characterize Einstein metrics among this class. In particular, we construct a family of Einstein metrics on $S^3$ with ${\rm Ric} = 2 F^2$, ${\rm Ric}=0$ and ${\rm Ric}=- 2 F^2$, respectively. This family of metrics provide an important class of Finsler metrics in dimension three, whose Ricci curvature is a constant, but the flag curvature is not.

非紧流形中预定平均曲率超曲面的极小-极大构造

Min-max construction of prescribed mean curvature hypersurfaces in noncompact manifolds

该研究建立了非紧流形中预定平均曲率超曲面的极小-极大理论，适用于紧集外不变号的预定函数，并借此证明了两类超曲面的新存在性结果。

Compactness for immersions of prescribed Gaussian curvature II - geometric aspects

We develop a compactness result near the boundary for families of locally convex immersions. We also develop a mod 2 degree theory for immersion of constant (and prescribed) Gaussian curvature with prescribed boundary. These are then used to solve the Plateau problem for immersions of constant (and prescribed) Gaussian curvature in general Hadamard manifolds.

On the scalar curvature of hypersurfaces in spaces with a Killing field

We consider compact hypersurfaces in an $(n+1)$-dimensional either Riemannian or Lorentzian space $N^{n+1}$ endowed with a conformal Killing vector field. For such hypersurfaces, we establish an integral formula which, especially in the simpler case when $N=M^n\times R$ is a product space, allows us to derive some interesting consequences in terms of the scalar curvature of the hypersurface. For instance, when $n=2$ and $M^2$ is either the sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ or the real projective plane $\mathbb{RP}^2$, we characterize the slices of the trivial totally geodesic foliation $M^2\times\{t\}$ as…

Surfaces with prescribed mean curvature in $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$

In this paper we study rotational surfaces in the space $\mathbb{H}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of their angle function. These surfaces generalize, among others, the ones of constant mean curvature and the translating solitons of the mean curvature flow. Using a phase plane analysis we construct entire rotational graphs, catenoid-type surfaces, and exhibit a classification result when the prescribed function is linear.

Singular surfaces of revolution with prescribed unbounded mean curvature

We give an explicit formula for singular surfaces of revolution with prescribed unbounded mean curvature. Using it, we give conditions for singularities of that surfaces. Periodicity of that surface is also discussed.

由环境函数规定平均曲率的毛细超曲面的紧致性

Compactness of capillary hypersurfaces with mean curvature prescribed by ambient functions

本文证明了由环境函数规定平均曲率的毛细超曲面的紧致性定理，推广了Schätzle和Bellettini的结果，并扩展了曲率varifold定义至有向积分varifold，同时讨论了边界平均曲率规定情形。

Starshaped locally convex hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature and boundary

In this paper we find strictly locally convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with prescribed curvature and boundary. The main result is that if the given data admits a strictly locally convex radial graph as a subsolution, we can find a radial graph realizing the prescribed curvature and boundary. As an application we show any smooth domain on the boundary of a compact strictly convex body can be deformed to a smooth hypersurface with the same boundary (inside the convex body) and realizing any prescribed curvature function smaller than the curvature of the body.

On two-dimensional immersions of prescribed mean curvature in R^n

We consider two-dimensional immersions of disc-type in R^n. We focus well known classical concepts and study the nonlinear elliptic systems of such mappings. Using an Osserman-type condition we give a priori-estimates of the principle curvatures for certain graphs in R^4 with prescribed mean curvature.

PDE and hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature

These are lecture notes for the mini-course \textit{PDE and hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature} held in Federal University of São Carlos at the Workshop on Submanifold Theory and Geometric Analysis, August 05 -- 09, 2019. The aim of these notes is to introduce to the geometers useful tools from the \textit{Theory of partial differential equations} which are used in order to obtain hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature. For instance, graphs with prescribed mean curvature can be obtained by solving the Dirichlet problem for a particular quasilinear elliptic partial differential …

On Finsler surfaces of constant flag curvature with a Killing field

We study two-dimensional Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature and show that such Finsler metrics that admit a Killing field can be written in a normal form that depends on two arbitrary functions of one variable. Furthermore, we find an approach to calculate these functions for spherically symmetric Finsler surfaces of constant flag curvature. In particular, we obtain the normal form of the Funk metric on the unit disk D^2.

在非正曲率的完整非紧赫尔米特流形上规定陈标量曲率

Prescribed Chern scalar curvature on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds with nonpositive curvatures

本文研究了在非正曲率的完整非紧赫尔米特流形上规定陈标量曲率的问题，得出了存在常数负陈标量曲率度量的充分条件。

Conformal immersions of prescribed mean curvature in R^3

We prove the existence of (branched) conformal immersions F: S^2 -> R^3 with mean curvature H > 0 arbitrarily prescribed up to a 3-dimensional affine indeterminacy. A similar result is proved for the space forms S^3, H^3 and partial results for surfaces of higher genus.

Minimal laminations with prescribed convex curvature blowup

We construct minimal laminations with prescribed singularities on a line segment using perturbation techniques and PDE methods. In addition to the singular set, the rate of curvature blowup is also prescribable in our construction, and we show that all curvature blowup rates between quadratic and quartic arise. Our result generalizes an earlier result of the author and of Hoffman and White.

Convex Hypersurfaces with Prescribed Scalar Curvature and Asymptotic Boundary in Hyperbolic Space

The existence of a smooth complete strictly locally convex hypersurface with prescribed scalar curvature and asymptotic boundary at infinity in $\mathbb{H}^{3}$ is proved under the assumption that there exists a strictly locally convex subsolution.

Euler obstruction and Lipschitz-Killing curvatures

Applying a local Gauss-Bonnet formula for closed subanalytic sets to the complex analytic case, we obtain characterizations of the Euler obstruction of a complex analytic germ in terms of the Lipschitz-Killing curvatures and the Chern forms of its regular part. We also prove analogous results for the global Euler obstruction. As a corollary, we give a positive answer to a question of Fu on the Euler obstruction and the Gauss-Bonnet measure.

Flux for Bryant surfaces and applications to embedded ends of finite total curvature

We compute the flux of Killing fields through ends of constant mean curvature 1 in hyperbolic space, and we prove a result conjectured by Rossman, Umehara and Yamada : the flux matrix they have defined is equivalent to the flux of Killing fields. We next give a geometric description of embedded ends of finite total curvature. In particular, we show that we can define an axis for these ends that are asymptotic to a catenoid cousin. We also compute the flux of Killing fields through these ends, and we deduce some geometric properties and some analogies with minimal surfaces in Euclidean space.

Uniqueness of curvature measures in pseudo-Riemannian geometry

The recently introduced Lipschitz-Killing curvature measures on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds satisfy a Weyl principle, i.e. are invariant under isometric embeddings. We show that they are uniquely characterized by this property. We apply this characterization to prove a Künneth-type formula for Lipschitz-Killing curvature measures, and to classify the invariant generalized valuations and curvature measures on all isotropic pseudo-Riemannian space forms.

Rotational surfaces of prescribed Gauss curvature in $\mathbb{R}^3$

We study rotational surfaces in Euclidean 3-space whose Gauss curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. By means of a phase plane analysis and under mild assumptions on the prescribed function, we generalize the classification of rotational surfaces of constant Gauss curvature; exhibit examples that cannot exist in the constant Gauss curvature case; and analyze the asymptotic behavior of strictly convex graphs. We also prove the existence of singular radial solutions intersecting orthogonally the axis of rotation.

Hypersurfaces of prescribed scalar curvature in Lorentzian manifolds

The existence of closed hypersurfaces of prescribed scalar curvature in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is proved provided there are barriers.

洛伦兹流形中非紧超曲面的预定平均曲率流

Prescribed mean curvature flow for noncompact hypersurfaces in Lorentz manifolds

本文研究洛伦兹流形中从完备非紧类空超曲面出发的预定平均曲率流，给出短时间存在的充分条件，并讨论长时间存在性与收敛性，进而应用于闵可夫斯基时空和施瓦西时空未来零无穷远附近的相关问题。

Hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Lorentzian manifolds

We give a new existence proof for closed hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature in Lorentzian manifolds.

Maxima of Curvature Functionals and the Prescribed Ricci Curvature Problem on Homogeneous Spaces

Consider a compact Lie group $G$ and a closed Lie subgroup $H<G$. Let $\mathcal M$ be the set of $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics on the homogeneous space $M=G/H$. By studying variational properties of the scalar curvature functional on $\mathcal M$, we obtain an existence theorem for solutions to the prescribed Ricci curvature problem on $M$. To illustrate the applicability of this result, we explore cases where $M$ is a generalised Wallach space and a generalised flag manifold.