A sharp inequality for trace-free matrices with applications to hypersurfaces

DOI10.1090/PROC/16657arXiv2305.03861OpenAlexW4386708726MaRDI QIDQ6183397FDOQ6183397

Authors: Jeffrey S. Case, Aaron J. Tyrrell 

Publication date: 4 January 2024

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive a sharp inequality relating the second and fourth elementary symmetric functions of the eigenvalues of a trace-free matrix and give two applications. First, we give a new proof of the classification of conformally flat hypersurfaces in spaceforms. Second, we construct a functional which characterizes rotational hypersurfaces and catenoids.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03861

zbMATH Keywords

rigiditycatenoidrotation hypersurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Inequalities for trigonometric functions and polynomials (26D05)

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• Analytic Inequalities
• Rotation Hypersurfaces in Spaces of Constant Curvature
• Double forms, curvature structures and the $(p,q)$-curvatures
• Conformal Differential Geometry of a Subspace
• Normalized Symmetric Functions, Newton's Inequalities, and a New Set of Stronger Inequalities
• Conformally flat hypersurfaces in a conformally flat Riemannian manifold

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