The length of the second fundamental form, a tangency principle and applications

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências

Francisco X. Fontenele²  Sérgio L. Silva¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal Fluminense Instituto de Matemática Departamento de GeometriaNiterói RJ ,Brasil

关键词: hypersurfaces;    tangency principle;    second fundamental form;    balls;    radius estimates;    hipersuperfícies;    princípio de tangência;    segunda forma fundamental;    bolas;    estimativas de raios;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0001-37652004000100001

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In this paper we prove a tangency principle (see Fontenele and Silva 2001) related with the length of the second fundamental form, for hypersurfaces of an arbitrary ambient space. As geometric applications, we make radius estimates of the balls that lie in some component of the complementary of a complete hypersurface into Euclidean space, generalizing and improving analogous radius estimates for embedded compact hypersurfaces obtained by Blaschke, Koutroufiotis and the authors. The basic tool established here is that some operator is elliptic at points where the second fundamental form is positive definite.

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