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A global pinching theorem for surfaces with constant mean curvature in
Author(s):
Yi-Jung
Hsu;
Tai-Ho
Wang
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
130
(2002),
157-161.
MSC (2000):
Primary 53C40, 53C42
Posted:
May 3, 2001
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Abstract:
Let be a compact immersed surface in the unit sphere with constant mean curvature . Denote by the linear map from into , , where is the linear map associated to the second fundamental form and is the identity map. Let denote the square of the length of . We prove that if , then is either totally umbilical or an -torus, where is a constant depending only on the mean curvature .
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Yi-Jung
Hsu
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Email:
yjhsu@math.nctu.edu.tw
Tai-Ho
Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Email:
teich@math.sinica.edu.tw
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06030-0
PII:
S 0002-9939(01)06030-0
Keywords:
Mean curvature,
sphere,
totally umbilical
Received by editor(s):
April 17, 1997
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
May 10, 2000
Posted:
May 3, 2001
Communicated by:
Christopher Croke
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2001,
American Mathematical Society
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