On Totally umbilical surfaces in the warped product $\mathbb{M}(\kappa)_f\times\mathbb{R}$

TL;DR

This paper classifies totally umbilical surfaces in warped product manifolds, showing they are invariant under isometries, deriving their profile equations, and providing explicit examples with non-trivial warping functions.

Contribution

It provides a complete classification of totally umbilical surfaces in warped products, including explicit constructions and analysis of their symmetry properties.

Findings

Totally umbilical surfaces are invariant under one-parameter isometry groups.

The first integral of the profile curve's differential equation is obtained.

Explicit examples with non-trivial warping functions are constructed.

Abstract

In this article we classify the totally umbilical surfaces which are immersed into a wide class of Riemannian manifolds having a structure of warped product, more precisely, we show that a totally umbilical surface immersed into the warped product $\mathbb{M}(\kappa)_f\times I$ (here, $\mathbb{M}(\kappa)$ denotes the 2-dimensional space form, having constant curvature $\kappa$, $I$ an interval and $f$ the warping function) is invariant by an one-parameter group of isometries of the ambient space. We also find the first integral of the ordinary differential equation that the profile curve satisfies (we mean, the curve which generates a invariant totally umbilical surface). Moreover, we construct explicit examples of totally umbilical surfaces, invariant by one-parameter group of isometries of the ambient space, by considering certain non-trivial warping function.