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Complete Surfaces with Ends of Non Positive Curvature

Differential Geometry 2016-08-11 v1

Abstract

In this paper we extend Efimov's Theorem by proving that any complete surface in R3\mathbb{R}^3 with Gauss curvature bounded above by a negative constant outside a compact set has finite total curvature, finite area and is properly immersed. Moreover, its ends must be asymptotic to half-lines. We also give a partial solution to Milnor's conjecture by studying isometric immersions in a space form of complete surfaces which satisfy that outside a compact set they have non positive Gauss curvature and the square of a principal curvature function is bounded from below by a positive constant.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0851,
  title  = {Complete Surfaces with Ends of Non Positive Curvature},
  author = {José A. Gálvez and Antonio Martínez and José L. Teruel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0851},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages, 10 figures