Abstract: | Locally convex compact hypersurfaces immersed in a hollow simply connected Riemannian space of nonpositive sectional curvature are considered. They are proved to be convex hypersurfaces homeomorphic to the sphere. A similar result for immersed hypersurfaces with nonpositive definite second quadratic form of rank no smaller than one is obtained. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 498–507, April, 2000. |