Um caso particular da desigualdade de Heintze e Karcher

Abstract

The objective of this notes is to prove in detail a theorem, due to Ernst Heintze and Hermann Karcher, establishing an upper bound for the volume of compact domains in a connected closed hypersurface immersed in Euclidean space E. As application we will give an alternative proof of the Alexandrov’s theorem, which states that the Euclidean spheres are the only embedded closed hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature in E.