A characterization of round spheres in space forms

DOI10.2140/PJM.2018.297.67MaRDI QIDQ1799048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Francisco Fontenele, Roberto Alonso Núñez

Publication date 18 October 2018

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04644

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic polynomialshypersurfaces in space formsLaplacian of the \(r\)-th mean curvaturescalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: Let $mathbb{Q}_c^{n+1}$ be the complete simply-connected $(n+1)$-dimensional space form of curvature $c$. In this paper we obtain a new characterization of geodesic spheres in $mathbb{Q}_c^{n+1}$ in terms of the higher order mean curvatures. In particular, we prove that the geodesic sphere is the only complete bounded immersed hypersurface in $mathbb{Q}_c^{n+1},;cleq0,$ with constant mean curvature and constant scalar curvature. The proof relies on the well known Omori-Yau maximum principle, a formula of Walter for the Laplacian of the $r$-th mean curvature of a hypersurface in a space form, and a classical inequality of Gaa rding for hyperbolic polynomials.

Review text

In this paper, the authors prove the following characterization of geodesic spheres in space forms: Let \(M^n\) be a complete Riemannian manifold with scalar curvature \(R\) bounded from below, and let \(f:M^n\to\mathbb Q^{n+1}_c\) be an isometric immersion, where \(\mathbb Q^{n+1}_c\) stands for the \((n+1)\)-dimensional complete simply-connected space of constant sectional curvature \(c\). In the case \(c\leq 0\), assume that \(f(M^n)\) is bounded, and in the case \(c>0\), that \(f(M^n)\) lies inside a geodesic ball of radius \(\rho<\pi/2\sqrt{c}\). If the mean curvature \(H\) is constant and, for some \(r=2,...,n\), the \(r\)-th mean curvature \(H_r\) is constant, then \(f(M^n)\) is a geodesic sphere of \(\mathbb Q^{n+1}_c\).

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