General curvature estimates for stable H-surfaces immersed into a space form

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 667-700

  Bérard, Pierre ^a   Hauswirth, Laurent ^b  

^a INSTITUT FOURIER   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Constant mean curvature; Curvature estimates; Morse index; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033197235     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-7824(99)00025-2     Document Type: Article

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