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New Hsiung-Minkowski identities

Differential Geometry 2021-09-06 v1

Abstract

We find the first three most general Minkowski or Hsiung-Minkowski identities relating the total mean curvatures HiH_i, of degrees i=1,2,3i=1,2,3, of a closed hypersurface NN immersed in a given orientable Riemannian manifold MM endowed with any given vector field PP. Then we specialise the three identities to the case when PP is a position vector field. We further obtain that the classical Minkowski identity is natural to all Riemannian manifolds and, moreover, that a corresponding 1st degree Hsiung-Minkowski identity holds true for all Einstein manifolds. We apply the result to hypersurfaces with constant H1,H2H_1,H_2.

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@article{arxiv.2102.08720,
  title  = {New Hsiung-Minkowski identities},
  author = {R. Albuquerque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08720},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted for publication in the Journal of Geometric Analysis

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