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arxiv: 1312.6311 · v1 · pith:B2B73FMGnew · submitted 2013-12-21 · 🧮 math.DG

Soap bubbles and isoperimetric regions in the product of a closed manifold with Euclidean space

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For any closed Riemannian manifold $X$ we prove that large isoperimetric regions in $X\times{\mathbb R}^n$ are of the form $X\times$(Euclidean ball). We prove that if $X$ has non-negative Ricci curvature then the only soap bubbles enclosing a large volume are the products $X\times$(Euclidean sphere). We give an example of a surface $X$, with Gaussian curvature negative somewhere, such that the product $X\times{\mathbb R}$ contains stable soap bubbles of arbitrarily large enclosed volume which do not even project surjectively onto the $X$ factor.

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