On the scalar curvature of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in space forms

Abstract

In this paper we study the behavior of the scalar curvature S of a complete hypersurface immersed with constant mean curvature into a Riemannian space form of constant curvature, deriving a sharp estimate for the infimum of S. Our results will be an application of a weak Omori–Yau maximum principle due to Pigola, Rigoli, Setti (2005) [17].