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An area bound for surfaces in Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2025-02-03 v3

Abstract

Let MM be a compact Riemannian manifold not containing any totally geodesic surface. Our main result shows that then the area of any complete surface immersed into MM is bounded by a multiple of its extrinsic curvature energy, i.e. by a multiple of the integral of the squared norm of its second fundamental form.

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@article{arxiv.1907.03457,
  title  = {An area bound for surfaces in Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Victor Bangert and Ernst Kuwert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03457},
  year   = {2025}
}