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 -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