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Uniqueness of starshaped compact hypersurfaces with prescribed $m$-th mean curvature in hyperbolic space

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let ψ\psi be a given function defined on a Riemannian space. Under what conditions does there exist a compact starshaped hypersurface MM for which ψ\psi, when evaluated on MM, coincides with the mm-th elementary symmetric function of principal curvatures of MM for a given mm? The corresponding existence and uniqueness problems in Euclidean space have been investigated by several authors in the mid 1980's. Recently, conditions for existence were established in elliptic space and, most recently, for hyperbolic space. However, the uniqueness problem has remained open. In this paper we investigate the problem of uniqueness in hyperbolic space and show that uniqueness (up to a geometrically trivial transformation) holds under the same conditions under which existence was established.

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@article{arxiv.math/0702750,
  title  = {Uniqueness of starshaped compact hypersurfaces with prescribed $m$-th mean curvature in hyperbolic space},
  author = {J. Lucas M. Barbosa and Jorge H. S. de Lira and Vladimir Oliker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0702750},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages