(1) Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, 60455-760 Fortaleza-Ce, Brazil
Abstract:
We deal with compact hypersurfaces immersed in space forms with constant
-mean curvature. They are critical points for a variational problem. We show they are stable if and only if they are geodesic spheres, generalizing results on constant curvature hypersurfaces.