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On some rigidity results of hypersurfaces in a sphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2010

Qing-Ming Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, 840-8502 Saga, Japan ([email protected])
Haizhong Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, People's Republic of China ([email protected])
Guoxin Wei
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, People's Republic of China Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, 840-8502 Saga, Japan ([email protected])

Abstract

We study the weak stability index of an immersion ϕ: MSn+1 (1) ⊂ Rn+2 of an n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. We prove that the weak stability index of a compact hypersurface M with constant scalar curvature in Sn+1 (1), which is not totally umbilical, is greater than or equal to n + 2 if the mean curvature H1 and H3 are constant, and that the equality holds if and only if M is . As an application, we show that the weak stability index of an n-dimensional compact hypersurface with constant scalar curvature in Sn+1 (1), which is neither totally umbilical nor a Clifford hypersurface, is greater than or equal to 2n + 4 if the mean curvature H1 and H3 are constant.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2010

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