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ON THE WILLMORE'S THEOREM FOR CONVEX HYPERSURFACES

  • ZHOU Jia-Zu
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  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
    Southeast Guizhou Vocational College of Technology for Nationalities, Kaili |556000, China

Received date: 2007-07-05

  Online published: 2011-03-20

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Abstract

Let M be a compact convex hypersurface of class C2, which  is assumed to bound a nonempty convex body K in the Euclidean space Rn and H be the mean curvature of M. We obtain a lower bound of the total square of mean curvature ∫M H2dA. The bound is the Minkowski quermassintegral of the convex body K. The total square of mean curvature attains the lower bound when M is an (n-1)-sphere.

Cite this article

ZHOU Jia-Zu . ON THE WILLMORE'S THEOREM FOR CONVEX HYPERSURFACES[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2011 , 31(2) : 361 -366 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60237-3

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