\(\delta(3)\)-ideal null 2-type hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces (Q2348079): Difference between revisions

Consider an \(n\)-dimensional connected Riemannian manifold \(M^n\) and an isometric immersion \(x:M^n\rightarrow \mathbb E^{n+1}\). Then, \(M^n\) is called a ``null 2-type hypersurface'' if \(x\) allows a decomposition \[ x=c_0+x_1+x_2, \quad\Delta x_1=0, \quad\Delta x_2=ax_2, \] where \(c_0\) is a constant vector, \(a\) is a non zero real number and \(\Delta\) denotes the Laplacian with respect to the induced Riemannian metric. Assuming \(n\geq 3\) and \(r\in [2,n-1]\), the first author introduced \[ \delta(r)(p)=\tau(p)-\inf{\tau(L_p^r)}, \] where \(\tau(p)\) is the scalar curvature of \(M^n\) and \(\inf{\tau(L_p^r)}\) is the function assigning to the point \(p\) the infimum of the scalar curvature for \(L_p^r\) running over all \(r\)-dimensional linear subspaces in \(T_pM^n\). Then the following holds \[ \delta(r)\leq{{n^2(n-r)}\over{2(n-r+1)}}H^2, \] where \(H\) is the mean curvature. If the equality holds identically on \(M^n\), the hypersurface is called ``\(\delta(r)\)-ideal''. The main result of the present paper is that: every \(\delta(3)\)-ideal null 2-type hypersurface in a Euclidean space must have constant mean curvature and constant scalar curvature.