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Immersions with small normal curvature

Differential Geometry 2026-02-18 v1

Abstract

We study Gromov's problem concerning minimal normal curvature immersions in the unit ball. In particular, we determine the minimal possible value of the normal curvature of an Sn×S1S^n\times S^1. We also prove a differentiable sphere theorem and an existence result for minimizers in this context.

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@article{arxiv.2602.15728,
  title  = {Immersions with small normal curvature},
  author = {Otis Chodosh and Chao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15728},
  year   = {2026}
}
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