Abstract
For an immersed hypersurface f: Mn → Rn+1 without umbilical points, one can define the Möbius metric g on f which is invariant under the Möbius transformation group. The volume functional of g is a generalization of the well-known Willmore functional, whose critical points are called Willmore hypersurfaces. In this paper, we prove that if a n-dimensional Willmore hypersurfaces (n ≥ 3) has constant sectional curvature c with respect to g, then c = 0, n = 3, and this Willmore hypersurface is Möbius equivalent to the cone over the Clifford torus in S3 ⊂ R4. Moreover, we extend our previous classification of hypersurfaces with constant Möbius curvature of dimension n ≥ 4 to n = 3, showing that they are cones over the homogeneous torus S1(r) × S1(√1 - r2) ⊂ S3, or cylinders, cones, rotational hypersurfaces over certain spirals in the space form R 2, S 2, H 2, respectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 251-267 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Geometriae Dedicata |
| Volume | 166 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2013 |
Keywords
- Möbius metric
- Möbius sectional curvature
- Willmore hypersurface
- conformally flat hypersurface