On the geometry of horospheres
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the geometry of horospheres
zbMATH Open document ID: 1308.53091
DOI: 10.4171/CMH/329
author: Cicero Pedro Aquino
author: Henrique Fernandes de Lima
published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
publication date: 2014-10-24T00:00:00Z
reviewed by: Yun Myung Oh
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C42
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C50
zbMATH DE Number: 6361415
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic space
zbMATH Keywords: de Sitter space
zbMATH Keywords: horospheres
zbMATH Keywords: mean curvature
zbMATH Keywords: Lorentz Gauss mapping
zbMATH Keywords: Gaussian curvature
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic cylinders
zbMATH Keywords: Berstein-type properties
zbMATH Keywords: support function
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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review text: Many characterizations of horospheres have been found. So for instance:NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE (a) \textit{M. P. do Carmo} and \textit{H. B. Lawson jun.} [Duke Math. J. 50, 995--1003 (1983; Zbl 0534.53049)] proved that any complete hypersurface properly embedded with constant mean curvature in \(\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\) with a single point at the asymptotic boundary is a horosphere. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE (b) \textit{L. J. Alías} and \textit{M. Dajczer} [Comment. Math. Helv. 81, No. 3, 653--663 (2006; Zbl 1110.53039)] proved that a surface properly immersed in \(\mathbb{H}^{3}\) with constant mean curvature \(-1\leq H \leq 1\) and contained in a slab must be a horosphere. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe aim of this paper is to find reasonable geometric conditions for complete hypersurfaces immersed in \(\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\) as a horosphere. By the method of generalized maximum principles, geometry of support function and Lorentz Gauss mapping, the authors prove that horospheres and hyperbolic cylinders are the only complete hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature of \(\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\) whose support functions determined by a nonzero null vector are linearly related. This result resolves the case that appeared in their earlier paper [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 386, No. 2, 862--869 (2012; Zbl 1251.53035)].
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