On Ricci's Conditions for Immersions of
Constant Mean Curvature of Free Boundary in
Balls of Space Shapes.
Ricci conditions, free boundary immersions, surfaces of constant mean curvature
In this dissertation, we will investigate the Ricci conditions for immersions of constant mean curvature of free boundary in balls of space forms. Given a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold $\Sigma^{2}$ with a metric $ds^{2}$ whose Gaussian curvature is $K_{s}< H^{2}+c$, the Gregory Ricci-Curbastro condition is a necessary and sufficient condition for such an immersion to be isometrically minimally immersed or of constant mean curvature in a space form is that the new metric $d\Tilde{s}^{2}=\sqrt{-K_{s}+H^ {2}+c}ds^{2}$ be flat. If the condition for performing this immersion is that $\Sigma^{2}$ is simply connected, then we can perform the immersion induced by the metric $ds^{2}$ on balls of space forms. In the same vein, we saw that the existence of minimal immersions in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$, the Simons Type equation, for the three-dimensional case, is equivalent to the differential equation $K\bigtriangleup K - ||\nabla K ||^{2} - 4K^{3}=0$ with $K<0$. Adding such a condition to a minimal isometric immersion $f: {\Sigma}^{2} \rightarrow B^{n} $, with possible branch points and no umbility points, we show that after a possible codimension reduction, $f (\Sigma^{2})$ essentially arrives at $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ or essentially $\mathbb{R}^{6}$. We thus obtain an analytic version for the minimal immersion $f$ , with possible branch points, where $f(\Sigma^{2})$ meets $\partial B $ orthogonally, so that $f(\Sigma^{ 2})$ is totally umbilical.