A Characterization of Quadric Constant Mean Curvature Hypersurfaces of Spheres

Let be an immersion of a complete n-dimensional oriented manifold. For any v∈ℝ ⁿ⁺², let us denote by ℓ _v :M→ℝ the function given by ℓ _v (x)=〈φ(x),v〉 and by f _v :M→ℝ, the function given by f _v (x)=〈ν(x),v〉, where is a Gauss map. We will prove that if M has constant mean curvature, and, for some v≠0 and some real number λ, we have that ℓ _v =λ f _v , then, φ(M) is either a totally umbilical sphere or a Clifford hypersurface. As an application, we will use this result to prove that the weak stability index of any compact constant mean curvature hypersurface M ⁿ in which is neither totally umbilical nor a Clifford hypersurface and has constant scalar curvature is greater than or equal to 2n+4. A. Brasil Jr. was partially supported by CNPq, Brazil, 306626/2007-1.