Integral curvature estimates for F-stable hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S00526-004-0306-5MaRDI QIDQ2486966zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 17 August 2005

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-004-0306-5

\(F\)-stable hypersurfaces generalized Simons inequality integral curvature estimate for hypersurfaces

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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The author considers parametric functionals of the form \({\mathcal{F}}(X)=\int_MF(N)\,d\mu\), with an integrand \(F\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\setminus \{0\})\) satisfying the homogeneity condition \(F(tz)=tF(z)\), for all \(z\in S^n,\;t>0\), where \(X:M^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) is an immersed hypersurface with Gauss mapping \(N\) and induced measure \(\mu\). Moreover, \(F\) is assumed to be elliptic, i.e. \(F_{zz}=({{\partial^2F}\over{\partial z^\alpha \partial z^\beta}}):z^\perp \to z^\perp \) is a positive definite endomorphism for all \(z\in S^n\). The main result is Theorem 1.1. Let \(n\geq 2\) and let \(p\in (4,4+\sqrt{8/n})\). Then there exists a constant \(\delta(n,p)>0\) with the following property: If \(F\) is an elliptic integrand satisfying \(\| F-A\| _{C^4}<\delta\) and if \(X\) is an \(F\)-stable hypersurface, i.e., a stable immersion of the parametric functional \({\mathcal{F}}(X)=\int_MF(N)\,d\mu\), then we have \(\int_M| S| ^p\,d\mu\leq C(n,p,F) \int_M| \nabla \varphi| ^p \,d\mu\), for all nonnegative test functions \(\varphi\in C_c^\infty(M)\). Here \(| S| ^2=\kappa_1^2+\dots +\kappa_n^2\), where \(\kappa_1,\dots ,\kappa_n\) denote the principal curvatures of \(X\). Applying the above results, the author obtains a lower bound on the covariant derivative of \(S_F\). Next, by using a general identity for the Laplacian of the length of the weighted second fundamental form, he obtains a generalized Simons inequality. As an application, one obtains a new Bernstein result for complete \(F\)-stable hypersurfaces of dimension \(n\leq 5\).

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