Some properties concerning the indicial roots of the Jacobi operator about the Delaunay hypersurface (Q1026940)

The result of \textit{R. Mazzeo, F. Pacard} and \textit{D. Pollack} [The conformal theory of Alexandrov embedded constant mean curvature surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). Clay Mathematics Proceedings 2, Providence, 2005)] is generalized to \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\), for \(n>3\). In particular, there exists a one parameter family of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces that is denoted by \(D_\tau\) for \(\tau\in(-\infty,0)\cup(0,\tau_*)\). There are given two different parametrizations of this one parameter family of hyper-surfaces of revolution in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\), which are immersed or embedded and have constant mean curvature normalized to be equal to 1. These hypersurfaces generalize the classical constant mean curvature surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) which were discovered by Delaunay in the middle of the 19-th century. The Jacobi operator (the linearized mean curvature operator) \(L_{D_\tau}\) is defined for an \(n\)-Delaunay hypersurface. Then the expression of the geometric Jacobi fields (some solutions of the homogeneous problem \(L_{D_\tau}w=0)\) are given. Next, for \(\tau\in(-\infty,0)\cup(0,\tau_*)\) the indicial roots associated to the Jacobi operator about an \(n\)-Delaunay hypersurface are defined. In the study of the positivity of the indicial roots of \(D_\tau\) the role played by the maximum principle is central.