Rigidez e convexidade de hipersuperfícies na esfera

Abstract

Consider an isometric immersion (phormula) of a compact, connected, orientable, n-dimensional (phormula), C1 Riemannian manifold Mn in a simply connected Riemannian manifold Nn+1 of constant sectional curvature. When Nn+1 is the Euclidean space Rn+1 and Mn has non-negative sectional curvatures, the following results, usually associated with the names of Hadamard and Conh-Vossen, are already known: (a) The image (phormula) is the boundary of a convex body of Rn+1, the map x is an embedding and Mn is diffeomorphic the unit sphere (phormula). (b) If (phormula) is another isometric immersion, fulfilling the hypotheses above, then exists an isometry (phormula) such that (phormula). The main goal of this work is to give a detailed proof of a version of the Theorem of Hadamard and Conh-Vossen due to the authors M. P. do Carmo and F. W. Warner, for the case where Nn+1 is the unit sphere (phormula) endowed with the Euclidean metric induced from (phormula), considering the hypothesis of that sectional curvatures of Mn compact, connected, orientable Riemannian manifold are bigger or equal to the curvature of the ambient manifold Sn+1.