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Rigidity and compactness with constant mean curvature in warped product manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-08-14 v5 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove the rigidity of rectifiable boundaries with constant distributional mean curvature in the Brendle class of warped product manifolds (which includes important models in General Relativity, like the deSitter--Schwarzschild and Reissner--Nordstrom manifolds). As a corollary we characterize limits of rectifiable boundaries whose mean curvatures converge, as distributions, to a constant. The latter result is new, and requires the full strength of distributional CMC-rigidity, even when one considers smooth boundaries whose mean curvature oscillations vanish in arbitrarily strong CkC^k-norms.

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@article{arxiv.2303.03499,
  title  = {Rigidity and compactness with constant mean curvature in warped product manifolds},
  author = {Francesco Maggi and Mario Santilli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03499},
  year   = {2025}
}

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39 pages, accepted version