Instabilidade e rigidez de hipersuperfícies e um teorema de unicidade em variedades semi-riemannianas

Abstract

Our aim in this work is threefold. First, we get an extension, to the spherical case, of a theorem due to J. Simons, which concerns unstability of minimal cones constructed over a certain class of minimal submanifolds of the Euclidean sphere. Second, we classify the quasi-Einstein structures of the Riemannian product Hn x R. Third, we get a rigidity theorem for complete hypersurfaces into the De Sitter space, under certain conditions on the mean and scalar curvatures.