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    Umbilic hypersurfaces of constant sigma-k curvature in the Heisenberg group

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    We study immersed, connected, umbilic hypersurfaces in the Heisenberg group HnH_{n} with nn ≥\geq 2.2. We show that such a hypersurface, if closed, must be rotationally invariant up to a Heisenberg translation. Moreover, we prove that, among others, Pansu spheres are the only such spheres with positive constant sigma-k curvature up to Heisenberg translations.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figure

    Umbilicity and characterization of Pansu spheres in the Heisenberg group

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    For n≥2n\geq 2 we define a notion of umbilicity for hypersurfaces in the Heisenberg group HnH_{n}. We classify umbilic hypersurfaces in some cases, and prove that Pansu spheres are the only umbilic spheres with positive constant pp(or horizontal)-mean curvature in HnH_{n} up to Heisenberg translations.Comment: 32 pages, 2 figures; in Crelle's journal, 201
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