THE STRUCTURE OF WEAKLY STABLE CONSTANT MEAN CURVATURE HYPERSURFACES

Abstract

We study the global behavior of weakly stable constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold by using harmonic function theory. In particular, a complete oriented weakly stable minimal hypersurface in the Euclidean space must have only one end. Any complete noncompact weakly stable hypersurface with constant mean curvature $H$ in the 4 and 5 dimensional hyperbolic spaces has only one end under some restrictions on $H$.