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The Abresch-Rosenberg Shape Operator and applications

Differential Geometry 2016-06-22 v3

Abstract

There exists a holomorphic quadratic differential defined on any HH- surface immersed in the homogeneous space E(κ,τ)\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau) given by U. Abresch and H. Rosenberg, called the Abresch-Rosenberg differential. However, there were no Codazzi pair on such HH-surface associated to the Abresch-Rosenberg differential when τ0\tau \neq 0. The goal of this paper is to find a geometric Codazzi pair defined on any HH-surface in E(κ,τ)\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau), when τ0\tau \neq 0, whose (2,0)(2,0)-part is the Abresch-Rosenberg differential. In particular, this allows us to compute a Simons' type formula for HH-surfaces in E(κ,τ)\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau). We apply such Simons' type formula, first, to study the behavior of complete HH-surfaces Σ\Sigma of finite Abresch-Rosenberg total curvature immersed in E(κ,τ)\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau). Second, we estimate the first eigenvalue of any Schr\"odinger operator L=Δ+VL= \Delta + V, VV continuous, defined on such surfaces. Finally, together with the Omori-Yau's Maximum Principle, we classify complete HH-surfaces in E(κ,τ)\mathbb{E}(\kappa,\tau), τ0\tau \neq 0, satisfying a lower bound on HH depending on κ\kappa and τ\tau.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02099,
  title  = {The Abresch-Rosenberg Shape Operator and applications},
  author = {José M. Espinar and Haimer A. Trejos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02099},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Major changes in the presentation. Corrected Theorem 2 and improvements on its consequences

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