Hypersurfaces with nonnegative scalar curvature

DOI10.4310/JDG/1376053447zbMATH Open1279.53009arXiv1102.5749OpenAlexW2963548968WikidataQ115169166 ScholiaQ115169166MaRDI QIDQ374600FDOQ374600

Authors: Lan-Hsuan Huang, Damin Wu 

Publication date: 23 October 2013

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that closed hypersurfaces in Euclidean space with nonnegative scalar curvature are weakly mean convex. In contrast, the statement is no longer true if the scalar curvature is replaced by the k-th mean curvature, for k greater than 2, as we construct the counter-examples for all k greater than 2. Our proof relies on a new geometric inequality which relates the scalar curvature and mean curvature of a hypersurface to the mean curvature of the level sets of a height function. By extending the argument, we show that complete non-compact hypersurfaces of finitely many regular ends with nonnegative scalar curvature are weakly mean convex, and prove a positive mass theorem for such hypersurfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5749

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zbMATH Keywords

convexitysectional curvaturemean curvaturepositive mass theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

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