Uniqueness of starshaped compact hypersurfaces with prescribed m-th mean curvature in hyperbolic space

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Authors Jorge H. S. de Lira, J. Lucas M. Barbosa, Vladimir I. Oliker

Publication date 5 October 2007

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702750

zbMATH Keywords

prescribed curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: Let $psi$ be a given function defined on a Riemannian space. Under what conditions does there exist a compact starshaped hypersurface $M$ for which $psi$, when evaluated on $M$, coincides with the $m-$th elementary symmetric function of principal curvatures of $M$ for a given $m$? The corresponding existence and uniqueness problems in Euclidean space have been investigated by several authors in the mid 1980's. Recently, conditions for existence were established in elliptic space and, most recently, for hyperbolic space. However, the uniqueness problem has remained open. In this paper we investigate the problem of uniqueness in hyperbolic space and show that uniqueness (up to a geometrically trivial transformation) holds under the same conditions under which existence was established.

Review text

By applying the geometric form of Alexsandrov's maximum principle the authors prove uniqueness of solutions to the prescribed \(m\)-th elementary symmetric curvature problem in hyperbolic \(n\)-space. More precisely: Under conditions (involving \(C^2\) estimates) where existence has been proven by \textit{Q. Jin} and \textit{Y. Li} [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 15, No. 2, 367--377 (2006; Zbl 1177.53058)] it is shown that uniqueness (up to a geometrically trivial transformation) holds.

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