Complete Constant Mean Curvature surfaces and Bernstein type Theorems in $\mathbb{M}^2\times \mathbb{R}$

Espinar, Jose M.; Rosenberg, Harold

Complete Constant Mean Curvature surfaces and Bernstein type Theorems in $\mathbb{M}^2\times \mathbb{R}$

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In this paper we study constant mean curvature surfaces $Σ$ in a product space, $\mathbb{M}^2\times \mathbb{R}$, where $\mathbb{M}^2$ is a complete Riemannian manifold. We assume the angle function $ν= \meta{N}{\partial_t}$ does not change sign on $Σ$. We classify these surfaces according to the infimum $c(Σ)$ of the Gaussian curvature of the projection of $Σ$. When $H \neq 0$ and $c(Σ)\geq 0$, then $Σ$ is a cylinder over a complete curve with curvature 2H. If H=0 and $c(Σ) \geq 0$, then $Σ$ must be a vertical plane or $Σ$ is a slice $\mathbb{M}^2 \times {t}$, or $\mathbb{M}^2 \equiv \mathbb{R}^2$ with the flat metric and $Σ$ is a tilted plane (after possibly passing to a covering space). When $c(Σ)<0$ and $H>\sqrt{-c(Σ)} /2$, then $Σ$ is a vertical cylinder over a complete curve of $\mathbb{M}^2$ of constant geodesic curvature $2H$. This result is optimal. We also prove a non-existence result concerning complete multi-graphs in $\mathbb{M}^2\times \mathbb{R}$, when $c(\mathbb{M}^2)<0$.