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On complete hypersurfaces with constant mean and scalar curvatures in Euclidean spaces

Differential Geometry 2016-06-03 v1

Abstract

Generalizing a theorem of Huang, Cheng and Wan classified the complete hypersurfaces of R4\mathbb R^4 with non-zero constant mean curvature and constant scalar curvature. In our work, we obtain results of this nature in higher dimensions. In particular, we prove that if a complete hypersurface of R5\mathbb R^5 has constant mean curvature H0H\neq 0 and constant scalar curvature R23H2R\geq\frac{2}{3}H^2, then R=H2R=H^2, R=89H2R=\frac{8}{9}H^2 or R=23H2R=\frac{2}{3}H^2. Moreover, we characterize the hypersurface in the cases R=H2R=H^2 and R=89H2R=\frac{8}{9}H^2, and provide an example in the case R=23H2R=\frac{2}{3}H^2. The proofs are based on the principal curvature theorem of Smyth-Xavier and a well known formula for the Laplacian of the squared norm of the second fundamental form of a hypersurface in a space form.

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@article{arxiv.1606.00806,
  title  = {On complete hypersurfaces with constant mean and scalar curvatures in Euclidean spaces},
  author = {Roberto Alonso Núñez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00806},
  year   = {2016}
}