For entire numbers r and s satisfying 0 ≤ r ≤ s ≤ n − 2, we showed that the index of (r, s)-stability of a (r, s)-linear Weingarten Clifford torus immersed into the (n + 1)-dimensional unit Euclidean sphere, that has a linear combination of their higher order mean curvatures Hr+1 and Hs+1 being null, is exactly equal to n + 3 provided that a geometric condition involving Hr+2 and Hs+2 is satisfied.

In the unit Euclidean sphere Sn+1, we deal with a class of hypersurfaces that were characterized in [23] as the critical points of a variational problem, the so-called (r, s)-linear Weingarten hypersurfaces (0 ≤ r ≤s ≤ n−1); namely, the hypersurfaces of Sn+1 that has a linear combination arHr+1+・ ・ ・+asHs+1 of their higher order mean curvatures Hr+1 and Hs+1 being a real constant, where ar, . . . , ar are nonnegative real numbers (with at least one non zero). By assuming a geometric constraint involving the higher order mean curvatures of these hypersurfaces, we prove a uniqueness result for strongly stable (r, s)-linear Weingarten hypersurfaces immersed in a certain region determined by a geodesic sphere of Sn+1. We also establish a nonexistence result in another region of Sn+1 for strongly stable Weingarten (r, s)-linear hypersurfaces.