General Closed Surfaces of Genus O with Constant Mean Curvature — Generalizations

Author(s):  
Heinz Hopf
Author(s):  
Luca Guzzardi ◽  
Epifanio G Virga

We propose three integral criteria that must be satisfied by all closed surfaces with constant mean curvature immersed in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. These criteria are integral identities that follow from requiring the second variation of the area functional to be invariant under rigid displacements. We obtain from them a new proof of the old result by Delaunay, to the effect that the sphere is the only closed axis-symmetric surface.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (767) ◽  
pp. 161-191
Author(s):  
Otis Chodosh ◽  
Michael Eichmair

AbstractWe extend the Lyapunov–Schmidt analysis of outlying stable constant mean curvature spheres in the work of S. Brendle and the second-named author [S. Brendle and M. Eichmair, Isoperimetric and Weingarten surfaces in the Schwarzschild manifold, J. Differential Geom. 94 2013, 3, 387–407] to the “far-off-center” regime and to include general Schwarzschild asymptotics. We obtain sharp existence and non-existence results for large stable constant mean curvature spheres that depend delicately on the behavior of scalar curvature at infinity.


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