Small spheres with prescribed nonconstant mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds

Given a function f on a smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary, we prove that if p∈M is a non-degenerate critical point of f, then a neighborhood of p contains a foliation by spheres with mean curvature proportional to f. This foliation is essentially unique. The nondegeneracy assumption can be...

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Authors: Enciso, A., Fernández, A.J., Peralta-Salas, D.
Format: article
Status:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/380750
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/380750
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Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Foliation
Lyapunov–Schmidt
Mean curvature
Riemannian manifold
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Summary:Given a function f on a smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary, we prove that if p∈M is a non-degenerate critical point of f, then a neighborhood of p contains a foliation by spheres with mean curvature proportional to f. This foliation is essentially unique. The nondegeneracy assumption can be substantially relaxed, at the expense of losing the property that the family of spheres with prescribed mean curvature defines a foliation. © 2024 Elsevier Inc.