A topological characterization of compact n-manifolds with C^ 2- boundary in R^ n

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(92)90132-JMaRDI QIDQ1190689zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Y. D. Chai

Publication date 26 September 1992

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(92)90132-J

zbMATH Keywords

\(p^*\)-convexfocal pointindexprincipal normal curvatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variants of convex sets (star-shaped, ((m, n))-convex, etc.) (52A30) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

In this paper, an \(n\)-manifold \(M\) with \(C^ 2\)-boundary \(\partial M\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) is called \(p^*\)-convex if each point on \(\partial M\) has at most \(p\) negative principal normal curvatures with respect to the inward normal vector and if the homology groups \(H_ i(M)\) of \(M\) of dimension \(i\geq p\) vanish. The author's main result is that a compact \(n\)-manifold \(M\) with \(C^ 2\)-boundary in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) is \(p^*\)-convex if and only if for almost all \(x\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\), all \(r>0\) and all \(i\geq p\) it satisfies \(H_ i(M\cap B(x,r))=0\), where \(B(x,r)\) denotes the ball with centre \(x\) and radius \(r\). The proof uses Morse theory.

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