An extension of Liebmann's Theorem to hypersurfaces with boundary
Differential Geometry
2025-08-26 v3
Abstract
Liebmann's Theorem asserts that a compact, connected, convex surface with constant mean curvature (CMC) in the Euclidean space must be a totally umbilical sphere. In this article we extend Liebmann's result to hypersurfaces with boundary. More precisely, we prove that a locally convex, embedded, compact, connected CMC hypersurface bounded by a closed strictly convex -dimensional submanifold in a hyperplane lies in one of the two halfspace determined by and inherits the symmetries of the boundary. Consequently, spherical caps are the only such hypersurfaces with non-zero constant mean curvature bounded by a sphere.
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@article{arxiv.2412.03368,
title = {An extension of Liebmann's Theorem to hypersurfaces with boundary},
author = {Flávio França Cruz and Barbara Nelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03368},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
In this version, we improved and extended the main result to any dimension