Poincaré type inequality for hypersurfaces and rigidity results (Q6165619)

The authors prove a general Poincaré type inequality on Riemannian manifolds whose sectional curvature is suitably bounded. They then apply this inequality, combined with some other mild assumptions, to prove the following: (1) Some isoperimetric inequalities for domains of hypersurfaces; (2) Minimal hypersurfaces of space forms (satisfying suitable decay properties) are foliated by totally geodesic submanifolds; (3) Hypersurfaces with a determined constant scalar curvature in Einstein manifolds are totally geodesic; (4) The hyperplane is rigid, in the sense that is the only homothetic self-similar solution to a class of fully nonlinear curvature flows.