A characterization of round spheres in space forms

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Abstract: Let mathbbQcn+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 mathbbQcn+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 mathbbQcn+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.



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