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Research Report MRR01-017

On locally convex hypersurfaces with boundary

Neil S. Trudinger and Xu-Jia Wang

Abstract: In this paper we give some geometric characterizations of locally convex hypersurfaces. In particular, we prove that for a given locally convex hypersurface M with boundary, there exists r>0 depending only on the diameter of M and the principal curvatures of M on its boundary, such that the r-neighbourhood of any given point on M is convex. As an application we prove an existence theorem for a Plateau problem for locally convex hypersurfaces of constant Gauss curvature.

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