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SCALAR CURVATURE COMPARISONS OF LEVEL HYPERSURFACES OF GEODESIC SPHERES

Kim, Jong Ryul (Department of Mathematics Kunsan National University)

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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.55, no.2, 2018 , pp. 331-340 More about this Journal

Abstract

Using the comparison of differential equations involving Ricci and scalar curvatures obtained by Eschenburg and O'Sullivan, the scalar curvatures of level hypersurfaces of geodesic spheres are compared.

Keywords

H-Jacobi tensor; Jacobi equation; mean curvature;

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