Complete hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and finite index in hyperbolic spaces (Q656174)

In the hyperbolic spaces of curvature \(-1\) and dimensions \(n = 4\) and \(5\) there are considered two properties of an immersed hypersurface of constant curvature \(H>1\): the finite index property and the stability property. The author remarks that the latter implies the former and that it is an open problem whether a complete hypersurface of finite index with constant \(H>1\) is necessarily compact or a geodesic sphere (contrary to the case \(n = 3 \) which was solved by \textit{I. C. Linma} and \textit{A. M. da Silveira} [Math. Ann. 277, 629--638 (1987; Zbl 1010.53006)]). In the next two dimensions, \textit{Cheng X.} [Arch. Math. (Basel) 86, 365--374 (2006; Zbl 1095.53043)] could show that the bounds \( H > \sqrt{\frac{10}{9}} = 1.054\ldots \) (\( n = 4 \)) resp. \( H > \sqrt{\frac{7}{4}} = 1.322\ldots \) (\( n = 5 \)) force a complete hypersurface of finite index to become compact. The author now improves these bounds, and in fact obtains the result that, in the complete stable case, \( H > \sqrt{\frac{64}{63}} = 1.007\ldots \) resp. \( H > \sqrt{\frac{175}{148}} = 1.087\ldots \) imply that the hypersurface is a geodesic sphere. The keys to his proof are an inequality on the square norm of symmetric matrices and the introduction of the notion of `\( k \)-weighted bi-Ricci curvature'. Besides this, elaborate estimates have to be executed.