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Curvatures of complete hypersurfaces in space forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2007

Qing-Ming Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan(cheng@ms.saga-u.ac.jp)

Abstract

In this paper we investigate three-dimensional complete minimal hypersurfaces with constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature in a space form M4(c) (c 0). We prove that if the scalar curvature of a such hypersurface is bounded from below, then its Gauss-Kronecker curvature vanishes identically. Examples of complete minimal hypersurfaces which are not totally geodesic in the Euclidean space E4 and the hyperbolic space H4(c) with vanishing Gauss-Kronecker curvature are also presented. It is also proved that totally umbilical hypersurfaces are the only complete hypersurfaces with non-zero constant mean curvature and with zero quasi-Gauss-Kronecker curvature in a space form M4(c) (c 0) if the scalar curvature is bounded from below. In particular, we classify complete hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature and with constant quasi-Gauss-Kronecker curvature in a space form M4(c) (c ≤ 0) if the scalar curvature r satisfies r≥ ⅔c.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2004

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