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Biconservative hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in space forms

Differential Geometry 2021-10-08 v1

Abstract

Biconservative hypersurfaces are hypersurfaces which have conservative stress-energy tensor with respect to the bienergy, containing all minimal and constant mean curvature hypersurfaces. The purpose of this paper is to study biconservative hypersurfaces MnM^n with constant scalar curvature in a space form Nn+1(c)N^{n+1}(c). We prove that every biconservative hypersurface with constant scalar curvature in N4(c)N^4(c) has constant mean curvature. Moreover, we prove that any biconservative hypersurface with constant scalar curvature in N5(c)N^5(c) is ether an open part of a certain rotational hypersurface or a constant mean curvature hypersurface. These solve an open problem proposed recently by D. Fetcu and C. Oniciuc for n4n\leq4.

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@article{arxiv.2110.03438,
  title  = {Biconservative hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in space forms},
  author = {Yu Fu and Min-Chun Hong and Dan Yang and Xin Zhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03438},
  year   = {2021}
}

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