scholarly journals A generalization of the total mean curvature

2021 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 223-231
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Charytanowicz ◽  
Waldemar Cieślak ◽  
Witold Mozgawa
Author(s):  
Oscar Palmas ◽  
Francisco J. Palomo ◽  
Alfonso Romero

By means of several counterexamples, the impossibility to obtain an analogue of the Chen lower estimation for the total mean curvature of any compact submanifold in Euclidean space for the case of compact space-like submanifolds in Lorentz–Minkowski spacetime is shown. However, a lower estimation for the total mean curvature of a four-dimensional compact space-like submanifold that factors through the light cone of six-dimensional Lorentz–Minkowski spacetime is proved by using a technique completely different from Chen's original one. Moreover, the equality characterizes the totally umbilical four-dimensional round spheres in Lorentz–Minkowski spacetime. Finally, three applications are given. Among them, an extrinsic upper bound for the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the Laplacian of the induced metric on a four-dimensional compact space-like submanifold that factors through the light cone is proved.


2015 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunna Zeng ◽  
Wenxue Xu ◽  
Jiazu Zhou ◽  
Lei Ma

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 2729-2750 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dalphin ◽  
A. Henrot ◽  
S. Masnou ◽  
T. Takahashi

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Chunna Zeng ◽  
Lei Ma ◽  
Yin Tong

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 757-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor A. Alexandrov

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josu Arroyo ◽  
Manuel Barros ◽  
Oscar J. Garay

AbstractWe study the following problem: establish existence and classification of closed curves which are critical points for the total curvature functional, defined on spaces of curves in a Riemannian manifold. This problem is completely solved in a real space form. Next, we give examples of critical points for this functional in a class of metrics with constant scalar curvature on the three sphere. Also, we obtain a rational one-parameter family of closed helices which are critical points for that functional in ℂℙ2 (4) when it is endowed with its usual Kaehlerian structure. Finally, we use the principle of symmetric criticality to get equivariant submanifolds, constructed on the above curves, which are critical points for the total mean curvature functional.


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