Hipersuperficies en los espacios forma pseudo-riemannianos satisfaciendo L_K\PSI=A \PSI+B

Abstract

It is well known that Takahashi's Theorem [7] characterizes the submanifolds in the Euclidean space whose coordinate functions are eigenfunctions of the Laplacian associated to the same nonzero eigenvalue: they are minimal submanifolds in a hypersphere. Later on, many authors have obtained different extensions of Takahashi's Theorem. One of these extensions is given by Dillen-Pas-Verstraelen in [2]. In that work, the authors study surfaces in the 3-dimensional space whose immersion ψ satisfy Δψ=Aψ+b, where Δ denotes the Laplacian operator, A is a 3x3 real matrix and b is a constant vector. They obtain that the only surfaces satisfying that equation are minimal ones, spheres and circular cylinders. After that different authors have studied this condition in the case of hypersurfaces Mn immersed in pseudo-Euclidean spaces Rn+1 for any index t≥0, and showed that Mn must be an open part of a minimal Rn+1 surfaces, a totally umbilical hypersurface or a standard pseudo-Riemannian product. Recently, that equation has been extended to operators different to the Laplacian one. In fact, Alías and Gürbüz study in [2] hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space Rn+1 whose position vector ψ satisfies Lkψ=Aψ+b, where Lk is the linealized differential operator associated to the mean curvature of order k+1, for k=0, 1,..., n-1 (note that for k=0 we obtain the Laplacian operator). Those authors show that the only hypersurfaces satisfying the above condition are k-minimal hypersurfaces, hyperspheres and generalized cylinders (for appropriate radii and dimensions). In view of that result for operators Lk, we study the same condition but for hypersurfaces immersed in pseudo-Euclidean spaces Rn+1 for any index t≥0, and show (in papers [5] and [6]) that the only hypersurfaces in the pseudo-Euclidean spaces satisfying that condition are k-minimal hypersurfaces, hyperspheres and generalized cylinders (for appropriate radii and dimensions). After solving the problem for hypersurfaces in pseudo-Euclidean spaces, we study the condition Lkψ=Aψ+b for hypersurfaces immersed in pseudo-Riemannian space forms, for arbitrary index t≥0 and nonzero constant curvature. We show (in papers [3] and [4]), that the only hypersurfaces satisfying that condition are k-minimal hypersurfaces, totally umbilical hypersurfaces, standard pseudo-Riemannian products and some quadratic hypersurfaces. In conclusion, the results obtained in this Thesis extend completely to pseudo- Euclidean spaces and pseudo-Riemannian space forms of nonzero constant curvature the results previously obtained in [2]. References [1] L.J. Alías and N. Gürbüz. An extension of Takahashi theorem for the linearized operators of the higher order mean curvatures, Geom. Dedicata 121 (2006), 113-127. [2] F. Dillen, J. Pas and L. Verstraelen. On surfaces of finite type in Euclidean 3-space, Kodai Math. J. 13 (1990), 10-21. [3] P. Lucas and H.F. Ramírez-Ospina. Hypersurfaces in non-flat Lorentzian space forms satisfying Lkψ=Aψ+b , Taiwanese J. Math. 16 (2012), 1173-1203. [4] P. Lucas and H.F. Ramírez-Ospina. Hypersurfaces in non-flat pseudo-Euclidean space form satisfying a linear condition in the linearized operator of a higher order mean curvatures, Taiwanese J. Math. 17 (2013), 15-45. [5] P. Lucas and H.F. Ramírez-Ospina. Hypersurfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space satisfying Lkψ=Aψ+b , Geom. Dedicata 153 (2011), 151-175. [6] P. Lucas and H.F. Ramírez-Ospina. Hypersurfaces in pseudo-Euclidean space satisfying a linear condition on the linearized operator of a higher order mean curvatures, Diff. Geom. and its Appl. 13 (2013), 175-189. [7] T. Takahashi. Minimal immersions of Riemannian manifolds, J. Math. Soc. Japan 18 (1966), 380-385.