A rigidity theorem for self-expanders (Q6593259)

The authors investigate \(3\)-dimensional complete self-expanders in \(4\)-dimensional Euclidean space under the assumption that the square of the second fundamental form is constant. They prove that if \(f_{3}=\sum_{i,j,k}h_{ij}h_{jk}h_{ki}\) is constant, then the submanifold is a hyperplane \(\mathbb{R}^3\) through the origin. In order to prove this, the Omori-Yau generalized maximum principle is applied along with the following proposition.\N\NProposition 3.1: For a \(3\)-dimensional complete self-expander \(X: M^3 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^4\) with non-zero constant squared norm \(S\) of the second fundamental form, if \(f_{3}\) is constant, we have that sup \(H=\frac{3f_{3}}{2S}\).