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The classification of CMC foliations of $\mathbb{R}^3$ and $\mathbb{S}^3$ with countably many singularities

Differential Geometry 2014-01-14 v1

Abstract

In this paper we generalize the Local Removable Singularity Theorem in [16] for minimal laminations to the case of weak HH-laminations (with HRH\in \mathbb{R} constant) in a punctured ball of a Riemannian three-manifold. We also obtain a curvature estimate for any weak CMC foliation (with possibly varying constant mean curvature from leaf to leaf) of a compact Riemannian three-manifold NN with boundary solely in terms of a bound of the absolute sectional curvature of NN and of the distance to the boundary of NN. We then apply these results to classify weak CMC foliations of R3\mathbb{R}^3 and S3\mathbb{S}^3 with a closed countable set of singularities.

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@article{arxiv.1401.2813,
  title  = {The classification of CMC foliations of $\mathbb{R}^3$ and $\mathbb{S}^3$ with countably many singularities},
  author = {William H. Meeks and Joaquin Perez and Antonio Ros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2813},
  year   = {2014}
}

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38 pages, 5 figures