Hierarchy structures in finite index CMC surfaces

Abstract

Given epsilon(0) > 0, I is an element of N boolean OR {0} and K 0, H 0 >= 0, let X be a complete Riemannian 3-manifold with injectivity radius Inj(X) = e 0 and with the supremum of absolute sectional curvature at most K-0, and let M (sic) X be a complete immersed surface of constant mean curvature H is an element of [ 0, H-0] with index at most I. For such M (sic) X, we prove a structure theorem which describes how the interesting ambient geometry of the immersion is organized locally around at most I points of M, where the norm of the second fundamental form takes on large local maximum values.