TY - JOUR
T1 - Strong maximum principle for mean curvature operators on subRiemannian manifolds
AU - Cheng, Jih Hsin
AU - Chiu, Hung Lin
AU - Hwang, Jenn Fang
AU - Yang, Paul
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - We study the strong maximum principle for horizontal (p-)mean curvature operator and p-(sub)Laplacian operator on subRiemannian manifolds including, in particular, Heisenberg groups and Heisenberg cylinders. Under a certain Hormander type condition on vector fields, we show the strong maximum principle holds in higher dimensions for two cases: (a) the touching point is nonsingular; (b) the touching point is an isolated singular point for one of comparison functions. For a background subRiemannian manifold with local symmetry of isometric translations, we have the strong maximum principle for associated graphs which include, among others, intrinsic graphs with constant horizontal (p-)mean curvature. As applications, we show a rigidity result of horizontal (p-)minimal hypersurfaces in any higher dimensional Heisenberg cylinder and a pseudo-halfspace theorem for any Heisenberg group.
AB - We study the strong maximum principle for horizontal (p-)mean curvature operator and p-(sub)Laplacian operator on subRiemannian manifolds including, in particular, Heisenberg groups and Heisenberg cylinders. Under a certain Hormander type condition on vector fields, we show the strong maximum principle holds in higher dimensions for two cases: (a) the touching point is nonsingular; (b) the touching point is an isolated singular point for one of comparison functions. For a background subRiemannian manifold with local symmetry of isometric translations, we have the strong maximum principle for associated graphs which include, among others, intrinsic graphs with constant horizontal (p-)mean curvature. As applications, we show a rigidity result of horizontal (p-)minimal hypersurfaces in any higher dimensional Heisenberg cylinder and a pseudo-halfspace theorem for any Heisenberg group.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00208-018-1700-1
DO - 10.1007/s00208-018-1700-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047942297
VL - 372
SP - 1393
EP - 1435
JO - Mathematische Annalen
JF - Mathematische Annalen
SN - 0025-5831
IS - 3-4
ER -