Minimality and Nonlinear Spectral Rigidity of Hypersurfaces in Real Space Forms

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We study nonlinear mean-curvature spectral equations for hypersurfaces in Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic space. For an admissible analytic response F and ambient sectional curvature c, we prove minimality when the spectral parameter satisfies σ≥ nc, and strict mean-curvature bounds at gradient points when σ<nc. The class includes every power F(t)=t^p−1, p>1, and positive mixtures satisfying an explicit width condition. In particular, the result proves Chen's conjecture in Euclidean codimension one and biharmonic minimality in constant negative curvature, without completeness or holonomicity. A common real-analytic continuation and focal-trace argument treats all three geometries. Explicit umbilical models show that the unconditional spectral minimality range is sharp. Independently, we prove quantitative local rigidity, modulo ambient isometries, of compact nonminimal geodesic spheres in all three geometries and proper equal-radius Clifford hypersurfaces in spheres, for smooth laws with F,F'>0 near the model amplitude.

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@misc{wang2026minimality,
  title = {{Minimality and Nonlinear Spectral Rigidity of Hypersurfaces in Real Space Forms}},
  author = {Zihao Wang},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.00214},
  eprint = {2610.00214},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00214},
}

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TI  - Minimality and Nonlinear Spectral Rigidity of Hypersurfaces in Real Space Forms
AU  - Zihao Wang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/01
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.00214
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00214
AB  - We study nonlinear mean-curvature spectral equations for hypersurfaces in Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic space. For an admissible analytic response F and ambient sectional curvature c, we prove minimality when the spectral parameter satisfies σ≥ nc, and strict mean-curvature bounds at gradient points when σ<nc. The class includes every power F(t)=t^p−1, p>1, and positive mixtures satisfying an explicit width condition. In particular, the result proves Chen's conjecture in Euclidean codimension one and biharmonic minimality in constant negative curvature, without completeness or holonomicity. A common real-analytic continuation and focal-trace argument treats all three geometries. Explicit umbilical models show that the unconditional spectral minimality range is sharp. Independently, we prove quantitative local rigidity, modulo ambient isometries, of compact nonminimal geodesic spheres in all three geometries and proper equal-radius Clifford hypersurfaces in spheres, for smooth laws with F,F'>0 near the model amplitude.
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