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Stable hypersurfaces with zero scalar curvature in Euclidean space. (English) Zbl 1360.53016

Summary: In this paper we prove some results concerning stability of hypersurfaces in the four dimensional Euclidean space with zero scalar curvature. First we prove there is no complete stable hypersurface with zero scalar curvature, polynomial growth of integral of the mean curvature, and with the Gauss-Kronecker curvature bounded away from zero. We conclude this paper giving a sufficient condition for a regular domain to be stable in terms of the mean and the Gauss-Kronecker curvatures of the hypersurface and the radius of the smallest extrinsic ball which contains the domain.

MSC:

53A07 Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related \(n\)-spaces
53C42 Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)
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