Event Details
Title: Compact stable surfaces with constant mean curvature in Killing submersions
Speaker: J. Miguel Manzano (King's College London)
Abstract: A Killing submersion is a Riemannian submersion from an orientable 3-manifold to an orientable surface, such that the fibres of the submersion are the integral curves of a Killing vector field without zeroes. The interest of this family of structures is the fact that it represents a common framework for a vast family of 3-manifolds, including the simply-connected homogeneous ones and the warped products with 1-dimensional fibres, among others. In the first part of this talk we will discuss existence and uniqueness of Killing submersions in terms of some geometric functions defined on the base surface, namely the Killing length and the bundle curvature. We will show how these two functions, together with the metric in the base, encode the geometry and topology of the total space of the submersion. In the second part, we will prove that if the base is compact and the submersion admits a global section, then it also admits a global minimal section. This gives a complete solution to the Bernstein problem (i.e., the classification of entire graphs with constant mean curvature) when the base surface is assumed compact. Finally we will talk about some results on compact orientable stable surfaces with constant mean curvature immersed in the total space of a Killing submersion. In particular, if they exist, then either (a) the base is compact and it is one of the above global minimal sections, or (b) the fibres are compact and the surface is a constant mean curvature torus.
14 June 2016, 11:30, 1st floor Seminar room, IEMath-GR
More information about the Geometry Seminar in http://wdb.ugr.es/~geometry/seminar/es
