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An estimate for the total mean curvature in negatively curved spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Albert Borbély
Affiliation:
Kuwait University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060Kuwait e-mail: borbely@ mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw
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Let Mn be a nonpositively curved complete simply connected manifold and DMn be a convex compact subset with non-empty interior and smooth boundary. It is shown that the total mean curvature ∂D can be estimated in terms of volume and curvature bound.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2002

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