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José M. Espinar

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arXiv2015

Extremal Domains on Hadamard manifolds

We investigate the geometry and topology of extremal domains in a manifold with negative sectional curvature. An extremal domain is a domain that supports a positive solution to an overdetermined elliptic problem (OEP for short). We consider two types of OEPs. First, we study narrow properties of such domains in a Hadamard manifold and characterize the boundary at infinity. We give an upper bound for the Hausdorff dimension of its boundary at infinity and how the domain behaves at infinity. This shows interesting relations with the Singular Yamabe Problem. Later, we focus on extremal domains in the Hyperbolic Space $\mathbb H ^n$. Symmetry and boundedness properties will be shown. In certain sense, we extend Levitt-Rosenberg's Theorem \cite{LR} to OEPs, which suggests a strong relation with constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in $\mathbb H ^n$. In particular, we are able to prove the Berestycki-Caffarelli-Nirenberg Conjecture under certain assumptions either on the boundary at infinity of the extremal domain or on the OEP itself. Also a height estimate for solutions on extremal domains in a Hyperbolic Space will be given.

math.AP↗

arXiv2011

Compactness Theorems and Degree Theory for MOTS

We prove in this paper that, under suitable coinditions on an initial data set, we can obtain Area and Curvature Estimates for simple marginally outer trapped surfaces (or MOTS). Using this estimates, we derive a Compactness Theorem for MOTS. Moreover, the Compactness Theorem will allow us to adapt the recent Degree Theory of H. Rosenberg and G. Smith for proving existence results for embedded MOTS in suitable compact initial data sets

math.DG↗

arXiv2009

Hypersurfaces in Hyperbolic Poincaré Manifolds and Conformally Invariant PDEs

We derive a relationship between the eigenvalues of the Weyl-Schouten tensor of a conformal representative of the conformal infinity of a hyperbolic Poincaré manifold and the principal curvatures on the level sets of its uniquely associated defining function with calculations based on [9] [10]. This relationship generalizes the result for hypersurfaces in ${\H}^{n+1}$ and their connection to the conformal geometry of ${\SS}^n$ as exhibited in [7] and gives a correspondence between Weingarten hypersurfaces in hyperbolic Poincaré manifolds and conformally invariant equations on the conformal infinity. In particular, we generalize an equivalence exhibited in [7] between Christoffel-type problems for hypersurfaces in ${\H}^{n+1}$ and scalar curvature problems on the conformal infinity ${\SS}^n$ to hyperbolic Poincaré manifolds.

math.DG↗

arXiv2009

The Codazzi Equation for Surfaces

In this paper we develop an abstract theory for the Codazzi equation on surfaces, and use it as an analytic tool to derive new global results for surfaces in the space forms ${\bb R}^3$, ${\bb S}^3$ and ${\bb H}^3$. We give essentially sharp generalizations of some classical theorems of surface theory that mainly depend on the Codazzi equation, and we apply them to the study of Weingarten surfaces in space forms. In particular, we study existence of holomorphic quadratic differentials, uniqueness of immersed spheres in geometric problems, height estimates, and the geometry and uniqueness of complete or properly embedded Weingarten surfaces.

math.DG↗