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Constant mean curvature spheres in homogeneous three-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-06-29 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove that two spheres of the same constant mean curvature in an arbitrary homogeneous three-manifold only differ by an ambient isometry, and we determine the values of the mean curvature for which such spheres exist. This gives a complete classification of immersed constant mean curvature spheres in three-dimensional homogeneous manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1706.09394,
  title  = {Constant mean curvature spheres in homogeneous three-manifolds},
  author = {William H. Meeks and Pablo Mira and Joaquin Perez and Antonio Ros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09394},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

80 pages, 8 figures. This works contains an Appendix (Section 9) that previously appeared within arXiv:1606.08015