Minkowski inequality in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds

Abstract

Using harmonic mean curvature flow, we establish a sharp Minkowski type lower bound for total mean curvature of convex surfaces with a given area in Cartan-Hadamard 3-manifolds. This inequality also improves the known estimates for total mean curvature in hyperbolic 3-space. As an application, we obtain a Bonnesen-style isoperimetric inequality for surfaces with convex distance function in nonpositively curved 3-spaces, via monotonicity results for total mean curvature. This connection between the Minkowski and isoperimetric inequalities is extended to Cartan-Hadamard manifolds of any dimension.

arXiv comment15 pages; Minor revisions; Accepted for publication in Int. Math. Res. Not. (IMRN)