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Hypersurfaces in space forms satisfying the condition $L_kx=Ax+b$

Differential Geometry 2009-08-26 v1

Abstract

We study hypersurfaces either in the sphere \s{n+1} or in the hyperbolic space \h{n+1} whose position vector xx satisfies the condition Lkx=Ax+bL_kx=Ax+b, where LkL_k is the linearized operator of the (k+1)(k+1)-th mean curvature of the hypersurface for a fixed k=0,...,n1k=0,...,n-1, AR(n+2)×(n+2)A\in\R{(n+2)\times (n+2)} is a constant matrix and bRn+2b\in\R{n+2} is a constant vector. For every kk, we prove that when AA is self-adjoint and b=0b=0, the only hypersurfaces satisfying that condition are hypersurfaces with zero (k+1)(k+1)-th mean curvature and constant kk-th mean curvature, and open pieces of standard Riemannian products of the form \sm(1r2)×\snm(r)\sn+1\s{m}(\sqrt{1-r^2})\times\s{n-m}(r)\subset\s{n+1}, with 0<r<10<r<1, and \hm(1+r2)×\snm(r)\hn+1\h{m}(-\sqrt{1+r^2})\times\s{n-m}(r)\subset\h{n+1}, with r>0r>0. If HkH_k is constant, we also obtain a classification result for the case where b0b\neq 0.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3595,
  title  = {Hypersurfaces in space forms satisfying the condition $L_kx=Ax+b$},
  author = {Luis J. Alias and S. M. B. Kashani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3595},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

First version (July 2008). Final version (March 2009). To appear in the Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

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