CMC hypersurfaces with canonical principal direction in space forms

Abstract

A hypersurface of the space form has a canonical principal direction (CPD) relative to the closed and conformal vector field Z of if the projection of Z to M is a principal direction of M. We show that CPD hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature are foliated by isoparametric hypersurfaces. In particular, we show that a CPD surface with constant mean curvature of space form is invariant by the flow of a Killing vector field whose action is polar on . As consequence we show that a compact CPD minimal surface of the sphere is a Clifford torus. Finally, we consider the case when a CPD Euclidean hypersurface has zero Gauss–Kronecker curvature.