Integral formulas for the \(r\)-mean curvature linearized operator of a hypersurface
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Integral formulas for the \(r\)-mean curvature linearized operator of a hypersurface
zbMATH Open document ID: 0920.53030
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006555603714
published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
publication date: 1999-09-12T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(x:M^n \to Q^{n+1}_{c} \) be an isometric immersion of a compact oriented Riemannian manifold \(M^n\) into a simply connected space form \( Q^{n+1}_{c} \). We denote by \(S_{r}\) the \(r\)-mean curvature of \(M^n \) and by \(L_{r}\) \((0\leq r\leq n-1)\) the linearized operator of \(S_{r+1}\) arising from normal variations of \(x\) given by \(L_{r}= \text{div} (P_{r}\nabla)\). Here \(P_{r}\) is the \(r\)th Newton transformation, a polynomial in the second fundamental form \(B\) of \(x\) defined inductively by \(P_0=I, P_{r}=S_{r}I-BP_{r-1}\). The authors, by making different choices of the functions \(f\) and \(g\) on the Dirichlet integral formula for \(L_{r}\), \(\int_M (fL_r g +\langle P_r \nabla f, \nabla g\rangle)dM=0\), obtain new useful integral formulas which generalize known formulas for the Laplacian. The method gives a systematic process for proofs and a unified treatment for some Minkowski type formulas, via \(L_{r} \). As an application, the authors prove the following Theorem. Let \(M^n\) be as above with constant \((r+1)\)-mean curvature \((0\leq r\leq n-1)\). If \(c>0\), assume that \(x(M^n)\) is contained in an open hemisphere of \( Q^{n+1}_{c} \). Then, the set of points \(W= Q^{n+1}_{c}-\bigcup _{p\in M}( Q^n_{c})_p \) wich are omitted by the totally geodesic hypersurfaces \( (Q^n_{c})_p \) tangent to \(x(M^n)\) is non-empty if and only if \(x(M^n)\) is a geodesic sphere.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C21
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C42
zbMATH DE Number: 1172212
zbMATH Keywords: integral formula
zbMATH Keywords: linearized operator \(L_r\)
zbMATH Keywords: \(r\)-mean curvature
zbMATH Keywords: Dirichlet formula
zbMATH Keywords: Minkowski formulas
zbMATH Keywords: totally geodesic hypersurfaces
zbMATH Keywords: geodesic spheres
author: Hilário Alencar
author: Antonio Gervasio Colares
reviewed by: Christos Baikoussis
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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