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

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.

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