%0 Journal Article
%T Maximum principle for semi-elliptic trace operators and geometric applications
%A G. Pacelli Bessa
%A Leandro F. Pessoa
%J Mathematics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X Based on ideas of L. Al\'ias, D. Impera and M. Rigoli developed in "Hypersurfaces of constant higher order mean curvature in warped products", we develope a fairly general weak/Omori-Yau maximum principle for trace operators. We apply this version of maximum principle to generalize several higher order mean curvature estimates and to give an extension of Alias-Impera-Rigoli Slice Theorem
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1322v1