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CONSTANT SCALAR CURVATURE HYPERSURFACES WITH SECOND-ORDER UMBILICITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

ANTONIO GERVASIO COLARES  and
FERNANDO ENRIQUE ECHAIZ-ESPINOZA
ANTONIO GERVASIO COLARES
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza-CE, Brazil e-mail: gcolares@mat.ufc.br
FERNANDO ENRIQUE ECHAIZ-ESPINOZA
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A.C. Simões, 57455-760 Maceió-AL, Brazil e-mail: echaiz@pos.mat.ufal.br
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Abstract

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We extend the concept of umbilicity to higher order umbilicity in Riemannian manifolds saying that an isometric immersion is k-umbilical when APk−1(A) is a multiple of the identity, where Pk(A) is the kth Newton polynomial in the second fundamental form A with P0(A) being the identity. Thus, for k=1, one-umbilical coincides with umbilical. We determine the principal curvatures of the two-umbilical isometric immersions in terms of the mean curvatures. We give a description of the two-umbilical isometric immersions in space forms which includes the product of spheres embedded in the Euclidean sphere S2k+1 of radius 1. We also introduce an operator φk which measures how an isometric immersion fails to be k-umbilical, giving in particular that φ1 ≡ 0 if and only if the immersion is totally umbilical. We characterize the two-umbilical hypersurfaces of a space form as images of isometric immersions of Einstein manifolds.

Keywords

Primary 53C4253C40Secondary 53B2053B25
Type
Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 219 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 2008

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