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FIRST EIGENVALUE CHARACTERISATION OF CLIFFORD HYPERSURFACES AND VERONESE SURFACES

Part of: Global differential geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2024

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PEIYI WU*
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School of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China
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e-mail: pwu17@fudan.edu.cn
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Abstract

We give a sharp estimate for the first eigenvalue of the Schrödinger operator $L:=-\Delta -\sigma $ which is defined on the closed minimal submanifold $M^{n}$ in the unit sphere $\mathbb {S}^{n+m}$, where $\sigma $ is the square norm of the second fundamental form.

Keywords

minimal submanifoldthe first eigenvalueSchrödinger operator

MSC classification

Primary: 53C24: Rigidity results
Secondary: 53C42: Immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , February 2025 , pp. 164 - 173
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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