Laguerre geometry of hypersurfaces in R^n

DOI10.1007/S00229-006-0058-YMaRDI QIDQ863456zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 26 January 2007

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606325

hypersurface Laguerre geometry Laguerre invariants system for hypersurfaces Laguerre metric Laguerre minimal hypersurfaces Laguerre space form oriented sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other special differential geometries (53A40) Local submanifolds (53B25)

Abstract: Laguerre geometry of surfaces in

R^{3}

is given in the book of Blaschke [1], and have been studied by E.Musso and L.Nicolodi [5], [6], [7], B. Palmer [8] and other authors. In this paper we study Laguerre differential geometry of hypersurfaces in

R^{n}

. For any umbilical free hypersurface

x : M o R^{n}

with non-zero principal curvatures we define a Laguerre invariant metric

g

on

M

and a Laguerre invariant self-adjoint operator

m a t h b b S : T M o T M

, and show that

g, m a t h b b S

is a complete Laguerre invariant system for hypersurfaces in

R^{n}

with

n g e 4

. We calculate the Euler-Lagrange equation for the Laguerre volume functional of Laguerre metric by using Laguerre invariants. Using the Euclidean space

R^{n}

, the Lorentzian space

R_{1}^{n}

and the degenerate space

R_{0}^{n}

we define three Laguerre space forms

U R^{n}

,

U R_{1}^{n}

and

U R_{0}^{n}

and define the Laguerre embedding

U R_{1}^{n} o U R^{n}

and

U R_{0}^{n} o U R^{n}

, analogue to the Moebius geometry where we have Moebius space forms

S^{n}

,

H^{n}

and

R^{n}

(spaces of constant curvature) and conformal embedding

H^{n} o S^{n}

and

R^{n} o S^{n}

(cf. [4], [10]). Using these Laguerre embedding we can unify the Laguerre geometry of hypersurfaces in

R^{n}

,

R_{1}^{n}

and

R_{0}^{n}

. As an example we show that minimal surfaces in

R_{1}^{3}

or

R_{0}^{3}

are Laguerre minimal in

R^{3}

.

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