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CONSTANTMEANCURVATUREHYPERSURFACES WITHCONSTANTδ-INVARIANT BANG-YEN CHENandOSCAR J.GARAY Received 29April 2003 We completely classify constant mean curvature hypersurfaces (CMC) with con- stant δ-invariant inthe unit 4-sphere S4 and intheEuclidean 4-space E4. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation: 53C40, 53B25, 53C42. 1. Introduction. A hypersurface in the unit round sphere Sn+1 is called isoparametric ifithasconstantprincipalcurvatures. Itisknownfrom[1]that an isoparametric hypersurface in S4 is either an open portion of a 3-sphere oranopen portion oftheproduct ofacircle and a2-sphere, oranopen por- tionofatubeofconstantradiusovertheVeroneseembedding. Becauseevery isoparametrichypersurfaceinS4hasconstantmeancurvature(CMC)andcon- stantscalarcurvature,itisinterestingtodetermineallhypersurfaceswithCMC andconstantscalarcurvature.In[2],itwasprovedthataclosedhypersurface with CMC and constant scalar curvature in S4 isisoparametric. Furthermore, completehypersurfaceswithCMCandconstantscalarcurvatureinS4orinE4 havebeencompletely classi?ed in[9]. ForeachRiemannian n-manifold Mn withn≥3,the?rstauthorde?ned in [3,4]theRiemannian invariant δonM by δ(p)=τ(p)?infK(p), (1.1)
where τ= ijK(ei∧ej)isthe scalar curvature and infK isthe function as- signing to each p ∈Mn the in?mum of K(π), π running over all planes in T M.Although theinvariant δand thescalar curvature areboth Riemannian p scalarinvariants, theyareverymuchdi?erentinnature. Itisknownthattheinvariantδplayssomeimportantrolesinrecentstudyof RiemannianmanifoldsandRiemanniansubmanifolds(see,e.g.,[4,5,6,7,8,10, 11,12,14,15,16]).Inparticular,itwasprovedin[3]thatforanysubmanifold of a real space form Rm() of constant curvature , one has the following generalsharpinequality: δ≤ n22(n(n??12))H2+12(n+1)(n?2), (1.2)  4206 B.-Y. CHEN AND O. J. GARAY where H2 is the squared mean curvature function and n is the dimension of thesubmanifold. Clearly, everyisoparametric hypersurface inS4 orinE4 hasco