Campos de Killing, curvatura média e translações

Abstract

D. Hoffman, R. Osserman and R. Schoen proved that if the Gauss map of a complete constant mean curvature oriented surface M immersed in R³ is contained in a closed hemisphere of S² (equivalently, the function <n, V> does not change sign on M where n is a unit normal vector of M and v some non zero vector of R³), then M is invariant by a one parameter subgroup of translations of R³ (the one determined by v). In this work we obtain an extension of this result to the case that the ambient space is a Riemannian manifold and M a hypersurface on N by requiring that the function <n, V> does not change sign on M, where V is a Killing field on N. In the last part of this work we consider a Killing paralelizable Riemannian manifold N to define a translation map y : M -> Rn of a hypersurface M of N which is a natural extension of the Gauss map of a hypersurface in Rn. Considering the same hypothesis on the image of y we obtain, an extension to this setting, of the original Hoffman-Osserman-Schoen result.