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HYPERSURFACES IN A UNIT SPHERE Sn+1(1) WITH CONSTANT SCALAR CURVATURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2002

QING-MING CHENG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga 840-8502, Japan; [email protected]
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Abstract

The paper considers n-dimensional hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature of a unit sphere Sn−1(1). The hypersurface Sk(c1Snk(c2) in a unit sphere Sn+1(1) is characterized, and it is shown that there exist many compact hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in a unit sphere Sn+1(1) which are not congruent to each other in it. In particular, it is proved that if M is an n-dimensional (n > 3) complete locally conformally flat hypersurface with constant scalar curvature n(n−1)r in a unit sphere Sn+1(1), then r > 1−2/n, and

(1) when r ≠ (n−2)/(n−1), if

then M is isometric to S1(√1−c2Sn−1(c), where S is the squared norm of the second fundamental form of M;

(2) there are no complete hypersurfaces in Sn+1(1) with constant scalar curvature n(n−1)r and with two distinct principal curvatures, one of which is simple, such that r = (n−2)/(n−1) and

Type
Research Article
Copyright
London Mathematical Society 2001

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