New Explicit Eigenfunctions of the stability operator on some minimal hypersurfaces

Abstract

For any $n$-dimensional compact minimal hypersurface of the $(n+1)$-dimensional sphere, we have that the coordinate functions of the Gauss map are eigenfunctions of the stability operator associated with the eigenvalue $-n$. In this paper we consider minimal immersions from $\mbS^{k}\times\mbS^{\ell}\times\mbS^{1}$ to $\mbS^{k+\ell+2}$ of the form $\ddot{I}•(y,z,t)=\left(f(t)y,f_2(t)z,f_1(t)\right)$ and we explicitly show new eigenfunctions for the stability operator associated with the same eigenvalue. We also show that the stability index of these minimal immersions is at least $k\ell +3k+3\ell +8$.

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