Uniqueness and sharp existence bound for invariant CMC tubes

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Let cc be a screw motion geodesic in a homogeneous space with parameters cκc\kappa and cτc\tau, and let a tube invariant by translations along cc have constant mean curvature HH. Sharp existence and uniqueness conjecture. There exists a unique constant H0≥0\mathcal{H}_0\geq0 such that an invariant constant-mean-curvature tube along cc exists if and only if H>H0H>\mathcal{H}_0. Whenever such a tube exists, it is unique up to isometry. The conjecture is motivated by numerical evidence and extends uniqueness results known for Nil⁡3\operatorname{Nil}_3, S2×R\mathbb{S}^2\times\mathbb{R}, and SBerg3\mathbb{S}^3_\mathrm{Berg} with horizontal geodesic cc; the sharpness of the existence bound and uniqueness in the general case remain open.

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Philipp Käse and Francisco Torralbo, “Invariant constant mean curvature tubes in homogeneous spaces”, arXiv:2412.16070 (2024).

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