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RIGIDITY OF COMPACT SURFACES IN HOMOGENEOUS 3-MANIFOLDS WITH CONSTANT MEAN CURVATURE

  • Jing WANG ,
  • Yinshan ZHANG
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  • 1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;
    2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Received date: 2015-07-25

  Revised date: 2016-03-28

  Online published: 2016-12-25

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This work was supported by NSFC (11371330).

Abstract

In this paper, we establish a rigidity theorem for compact constant mean curvature surfaces of the Berger sphere in terms of the surfaces' geometric invariants. This extends the previous similar result on compact minimal surfaces of the Berger sphere.

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Jing WANG , Yinshan ZHANG . RIGIDITY OF COMPACT SURFACES IN HOMOGENEOUS 3-MANIFOLDS WITH CONSTANT MEAN CURVATURE[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2016 , 36(6) : 1609 -1618 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(16)30093-5

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