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On the scalar curvature of hypersurfaces in spaces with a Killing field

  • Alma L. Albujer , Juan A. Aledo und Luis J. AlĂ­as
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 13. April 2010
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Advances in Geometry
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Abstract

We consider compact hypersurfaces in an (n + 1)-dimensional either Riemannian or Lorentzian space endowed with a conformal Killing vector field. For such hypersurfaces, we establish an integral formula which, especially in the simpler case when is a product space, allows us to derive some interesting consequences in terms of the scalar curvature of the hypersurface. For instance, when n = 2 and is either the sphere or the real projective plane , we characterize the slices of the trivial totally geodesic foliation as the only compact two-sided surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature in the Riemannian product such that its angle function does not change sign. When n ≥ 3 and is a compact Einstein Riemannian manifold with positive scalar curvature, we also characterize the slices as the only compact two-sided hypersurfaces with constant scalar curvature in the Riemannian product whose angle function does not change sign. Similar results are also established for spacelike hypersurfaces in a Lorentzian product 𝕄 × ℝ1.

Received: 2008-04-15
Revised: 2008-06-04
Revised: 2008-07-24
Published Online: 2010-04-13
Published in Print: 2010-July

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