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The Classification of CMC foliations of {\Bbb R}^3 and {\Bbb S}^3 with countably many singularities
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 138, Number 5, October 2016
- pp. 1347-1382
- 10.1353/ajm.2016.0040
- Article
- Additional Information
In this paper we generalize our previous Local Removable Singularity
Theorem for minimal laminations to the case of weak $H$-laminations (with
$H\in{\Bbb R}$ constant) in a punctured ball of a Riemannian
three-manifold. We also obtain a curvature estimate for any weak CMC
foliation (with possibly varying constant mean curvature from leaf to
leaf) of a compact Riemannian three-manifold $N$ with boundary solely in
terms of a bound of the absolute sectional curvature of $N$ and of the
distance to the boundary of $N$. We then apply these results to classify
weak CMC foliations of ${\Bbb R}^3$ and ${\Bbb S}^3$ with a closed
countable set of singularities.