O teorema de Alexandrov

Abstract

The goal of this dissertation is to present a R. Reilly's demonstration of the theorem of Alexandrov . The theorem states that The only compact hypersurfaces, conected, of constant mean curvature, immersed in Euclidean space are spheres. The theorem of Alexandrov was proved by A. D. Alexandrov in the article Uniqueness Theorems for Surfaces in the Large V, published in 1958 by Vestnik Leningrad University, volume 13, number 19, pages 5 to 8. In his demonstration, Alexandrov used the famous Principle of tangency, introduced by him in that article. In the year 1962, M. Obata shown in Certain Conditions for a Riemannian Manifold to be isometric With the Sphere, published by the Journal of Mathematical Society of Japan, volume 14, pages 333 to 340, that a Riemannian Manifold M, compact, connected and without boundary, is isometric to a sphere, since the Ricci curvature of M satisfies certain lower bound. This theorem solves the problem of finding manifolds that reach equality in the estimate of Lichnerowicz for the first eigenvalue. In 1977, R. Reilly, in the article Applications of the Hessian operator in a Riemannian Manifold, published in Indianna University Mathematical Journal, volume 23, pages 459 to 452, showed a generalization of the Obata theorem for compact manifolds with boundary. As an example of the technique developed in this demonstration, he presents a new demonstration of the theorem of Alexandrov. This demonstration, as well as the techniques involved are the object of study of this work.