Hipersuperfícies mínimas completas estáveis com curvatura total finita

Abstract

The main goal of this dissertation is to present some results on minimal hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space related to the stability operator. Initially, we will present the demonstrations of the formulas of first and second variations of area and also the demonstration of the Simons inequality. These results (which are basic results of the theory) will be used later. Next we will present the proof of the do Carmo-Peng s theorem showing that a complete stable minimal hypersurface immersed in the Euclidean space with finite L2 norm of the second fundamental form is a hyperplane. We will include in this dissertation a similar result with the L3 norm of the second fundamental form. This last result was proved by Li-Wei in the case where the hypersurface has dimension 3, but we note that proof applies to 3≤n≤7. We will conclude by presenting some results on non-stable minimal hypersurfaces in R^3 due to Fischer-Colbrie and Lopez-Ros. In particular, we will show that the catenoid and Enneper s surface are the only minimal complete orientable surfaces with index equal to one.