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A new characterization for Clifford hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2024-03-05 v1

Abstract

For a closed minimal immersed hypersurface MM in Sn+1\mathbb S^{n+1} with second fundamental form AA, and each integer k2k\ge 2, define a constant σk=M(A2)kM\sigma_k=\dfrac{\int_M (|A|^2)^k}{|M|}. We show that σk2k\sigma_k \ge 2^k provided n=2n=2 and MM is not totally geodesic. When n=4n=4 and MM has two distinct principal curvatures, we show σ216\sigma_2 \ge 16. When n3n\ge 3 and MM has two distinct principal curvatures, for each integer k2k\ge 2, there exists a positive constant δk(n)<n\delta_k(n)<n, if A2δk(n)|A|^2\ge \delta_k(n), we have σknk\sigma_k\ge n^k. All the equality holds iff MM is isometric to a Clifford hypersurface.

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@article{arxiv.2403.01701,
  title  = {A new characterization for Clifford hypersurfaces},
  author = {Qing Cui and Carlos Peñafiel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01701},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, no figure

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