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We prove two rigidity results for surfaces lying in the standard null hypersurfaces of Schwarzschild spacetime satisfying certain mean curvature type equations. The first is for the equation $\alpha_H = - d\log |H|$ studied in \cite{WWZ}.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Po-Ning Chen , Ye-Kai Wang

In this paper we provide an extension to the Jellett-Minkowski's formula for immersed submanifolds into ambient manifolds which possesses a pole and radial curvatures bounded from above or below by the radial sectional curvatures of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Vicent Gimeno

A classical theorem of A.D. Alexandrov says that a connected compact smooth hypersurface in Euclidean space with constant mean curvature must be a sphere. We give exposition to some results on symmetry properties of hypersurfaces with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 YanYan Li

In this article, we will use inverse mean curvature flow to establish an optimal Sobolev-type inequality for hypersurfaces $\Sigma$ with nonnegative sectional curvature in $\mathbb{H}^n$. As an application, we prove the hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li

We consider surfaces with constant mean curvature in certain warped product manifolds. We show that any such surface is umbilic, provided that the warping factor satisfies certain structure conditions. This theorem can be viewed as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-23 S. Brendle

We investigate anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces within a wedge in Euclidean space. In this study, we generalize the Minkowski norm \(F\), traditionally employed to define the anisotropic surface energy, to a gauge on the unit sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Hui Ma , Jiaxu Ma , Mingxuan Yang

The problem of existence of spacelike hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in asymptotically flat spacetimes is considered for a class of asymptotically Schwarzschild spacetimes satisfying an interior condition. Using a barrier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Mirta S. Iriondo

The necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of $\alpha$-surfaces in complex space-time manifolds with nonvanishing torsion is derived. For these manifolds, Lie brackets of vector fields and spinor Ricci identities contain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito

In this paper, we obtain a new Hsiung-Minkowski integral formula for anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces in the half-space, which includes the weighted Hsiung-Minkowski formula and classical anisotropic Minkowski identity for closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Jinyu Gao , Guanghan Li

We use variational arguments to introduce a notion of mean curvature for surfaces in the Heisenberg group H^1 endowed with its Carnot-Carath\'eodory distance. By analyzing the first variation of area, we characterize C^2 stationary surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Manuel Ritoré , César Rosales

This paper studies necessary conditions for the existence of alpha-surfaces in complex space-time manifolds with nonvanishing torsion. For these manifolds, Lie brackets of vector fields and spinor Ricci identities contain explicitly the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Giampiero Esposito

The aim of this manuscript is to obtain rigidity and non-existence results for parabolic spacelike submanifolds with causal mean curvature vector field in orthogonally splitted spacetimes, and in particular, in globally hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Alma L. Albujer , Jónatan Herrera , Rafael M. Rubio

It is shown that convex hypersurfaces in Hilbert spaces have nonnegative Alexandrov curvature. This extends an earlier result of Buyalo for convex hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds of finite dimension.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Jonathan Dahl

The Minkowski inequality is a classical inequality in differential geometry, giving a bound from below, on the total mean curvature of a convex surface in Euclidean space, in terms of its area. Recently there has been interest in proving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Stephen McCormick

Let $M^{n}$ be an $n$-dimensional complete spacelike linear Weingarten submanifold immersed in a locally symmetric semi-Riemannian space $\mathbb{L}_{q}^{n+p}$ of index $q$, with parallel normalized mean curvature vector field and flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jogli G. S. Araújo , Weiller F. C. Barboza

We investigate the geometry and topology of compact submanifolds of arbitrary codimension in space forms satisfying a certain pinching condition involving the length of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. We prove that this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Theodoros Vlachos

A comprehensive analysis of general relativistic spacetimes which admit a shear-free, irrotational and geodesic timelike congruence is presented. The equations governing the models for a general energy-momentum tensor are written down.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Alan A. Coley , Des J. Mc Manus

We prove that, in Minkowski space, if a spacelike, $(n-1)$-convex hypersurface $M$ with constant $\sigma_{n-1}$ curvature has bounded principal curvatures, then $M$ is convex. Moreover, if $M$ is not strictly convex, after an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Changyu Ren , Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

Alexandrov's theorem asserts that spheres are the only closed embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in space forms. In this paper, we consider Alexandrov's theorem in warped product manifolds and prove a rigidity result in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Roncoroni , Luigi Vezzoni

In this paper, we give the geometric meaning of hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in a Finsler manifold by using volume preserving variation. Then we give the correspondence between principal curvatures of submanifolds by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Yali Chen , Qun He , Yantong Qian