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Minimal surfaces in a unit sphere pinched by intrinsic curvature and normal curvature

Differential Geometry 2017-12-25 v1

Abstract

We establish a nice orthonormal frame field on a closed surface minimally immersed in a unit sphere SnS^{n}, under which the shape operators take very simple forms. Using this frame field, we obtain an interesting property K+KN=1K+K^{N}=1 for the Gauss curvature KK and the normal curvature KNK^{N} if the Gauss curvature is positive. Moreover, using this property we obtain the pinching on the intrinsic curvature and normal curvature, the pinching on the normal curvature, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1712.08486,
  title  = {Minimal surfaces in a unit sphere pinched by intrinsic curvature and normal curvature},
  author = {Dan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08486},
  year   = {2017}
}

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15 pages, this paper has been accepted for publication in Science China Mathematics